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author | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2019-12-05 23:53:35 +0000 |
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committer | Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> | 2019-12-05 23:53:35 +0000 |
commit | 3745e0216c9d22e511d2195fdf34d741c861ab08 (patch) | |
tree | aca628e1729d9d8eb1e639b4029d77e12b170ef8 /Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers | |
parent | 60fdf1b92914c2adc782fc066d8381fb59dd2953 (diff) |
new abbreviation $DatabaseLocation for tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb; use it in a few places
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@53037 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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-rwxr-xr-x | Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers index f1d22b1eb39..dee164e32fb 100755 --- a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers +++ b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers @@ -561,6 +561,19 @@ Do not try to sign the resulting TeX Live tlpdb. Forces rebuild of all containers, including creation of the output C<texlive.tlpdb> if need be. +We used to recreate all containers for the release each year. Starting +with TL20, we longer do this, since it causes files with the same name +(foo.tar.xz) to change contents, either just compression options, etc., +or because the Catalogue values changed. We did not normally push out +Catalogue-only changes to tlnet during the year since they frequently +happen without any change to the package itself. Now, instead of the +yearly recreate, we explicitly push Catalogue-only changes every so +often using C<tl-update-tlpdb --catalogue-compare> (from C<cron.tl>). + +The upshot is that C<-recreate> is now used only for the tlcritical +repository in C<cron.tl>, and to make new repositories for testing; we +shouldn't ever use for tlnet. + =item B<--help> Display this documentation and exit. |