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authorNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>2008-09-10 12:52:04 +0000
committerNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>2008-09-10 12:52:04 +0000
commit6152bcb4d0227619e5a30749d378c251d64ee717 (patch)
tree59860952275e9e2f22a079bc9a858983e50829eb /Master/tlpkg/etc
parent9257f7b2b26dc4c8bfc17718f6ecb521839171c5 (diff)
update some docs
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@10537 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/etc/installed_avail_archs.diff b/Master/tlpkg/etc/installed_avail_archs.diff
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@@ -1,6 +1,37 @@
+Rational
+--------
+(but note that I believe it is outdated, see below)
+
+ currently there is a mess-up wrt to available and installed architectures.
+ We use 00texlive-installation/available_architectures for both the set
+ of installed archs and the set of available archs.
+ That should be better done as follows:
+ 00texlive.config:
+ should contain the available_architectures stuff
+ 00texlive-installation.config:
+ should contain *instead* installed_architectures stuff
+ and tlmgr should check:
+ localtlpdb/00texlive-installation.config/installed_architectures
+ for what archs are actually installed, and
+ remotetlpdb/00texlive.config/available_architectures
+ for what can be installed.
+
+ In the texlive-svn both variables would be initialized to the same thing,
+ while others that don't want to be necessary also runable as is (some
+ third party distribution of modules) should only need to set
+ 00texlive.config/available_architectures
+
+
There is some code missing that transfers the one option into the other
in the case that the other is absent.
+I am more and more convinced that this patch should not be included. Because
+we will always have that
+ available_archs == installed_archs
+so that is a bit a strange thing to duplicate it. If we want to use an
+installed system as installation source it makes sense to use the
+available as it is done for now.
+
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