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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2019-10-21 15:58:57 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2019-10-21 15:58:57 +0000
commit9474b7db3211261c19db160af542aa1a855659b6 (patch)
tree130d40a10be3c6e66ad76af9061642211200b8f5 /Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers
parent0c7d531503eed4ee9b9c697223277332f6e4b5d8 (diff)
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git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@52472 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers
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--- a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers
@@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ tl-update-containers [I<option>]...
=item B<-all|-a>
-Include packages deemed critical in the update, currently
+Include packages considered critical in the update, notably
C<texlive.infra>. That is, since C<tlmgr> changes should
be tested before released, we don't update these packages by default.
@@ -527,6 +527,16 @@ unless C<-recreate> is specified.
This is called from the L<tl-update-tlnet> script, which is run nightly.
+To reiterate the above: this program works by comparing revision numbers
+in the tlpdb files, not the contents of files. Thus, if the content of
+some source file is changed (e.g., making changes to C<TeXLive/*.pm>),
+but the tlpdb revision number is not changed, this program will think
+that nothing needs to be updated. So, the approach for development
+without having to do full rebuilds is to manually edit the
+C<texlive.tlpdb> file in the destination directory and decrement the
+revision number (or increment the revision in the source's
+C<texlive.tlpdb>).
+
=head1 AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT
This script and its documentation were written for the TeX Live