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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2010-03-27 16:36:40 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2010-03-27 16:36:40 +0000
commit70054ebfbdc65bcdf87ead38273cd7d7bae6bf9a (patch)
tree335072c80483e79a539e859c7825f6216848afca /Master/tlpkg
parenta615c7095a5fba128826e2e14a0c165fa2c418fd (diff)
doc fixes
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@17575 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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@@ -158,40 +158,11 @@ download-package-repository [OPTION]...
=head1 OPTIONS
=item B<-repository> I<url|path>
-
-Remote package repository to be used as a source for the creation of
-the local package repository. This can be either a local directory via
-C</path/to/directory> or a C<file:/> url, or a network location via
-a C<http://> or C<ftp://> url. (No other protocols are supported.)
-
-The default is to pick a mirror automatically, using
-L<http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet>; the chosen mirror is
-used for the entire download. See L<http://ctan.org> for more about CTAN
-and its mirrors.
-
-If the repository is on the network, trailing C</> characters and/or
-trailing C</tlpkg> and C</archive> components are ignored. For example,
-you could choose a particular CTAN mirror with something like this:
-
- -repository http://ctan.example.org/its/ctan/dir/systems/texlive/tlnet
-
-Of course a real hostname and its particular top-level CTAN path
-have to be specified. The list of CTAN mirrors is available at
-L<http://ctan.org/mirrors>. For more information see install-tl -help.
-
=item B<-persistent-downloads>
-
=item B<-no-persistent-downloads>
-Activating this option attempts to set up a persistent connection
-using the Net::LWP Perl module. This opens only one connection between
-your computer and the server per session and reuses it, instead of
-initiating a new download for each package.
-
-This option is turned on by default, and this program will fall
-back to using wget if this is not possible. If you want to disable
-usage of LWP and persistent connections, please use
-B<-no-persistent-downloads>.
+See the tlmgr documentation (L<http://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html>) for
+information.
The standard options B<-help> and B<-q>, B<-v>, and
B<-logfile>=I<file> are accepted too; see the C<process_logging_options>
@@ -199,13 +170,17 @@ function in L<TeXLive::TLUtils> for details.
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-Creates or updates a local package repository within the installer
-directory structure. Useful particularily on unstable internet
-connentions to predownload all packages before the installation.
-The local repository will be picked up automatically by the installer
-as a default one. The repository is not enabled untill all pacakges
-has been downloaded and md5 sum checked. If downloading has been
-interrupted for any reason, just rerun this script again to complete it.
+This script is useful particularly on unstable Internet connections to
+pre-download all packages before doing an installation.
+
+In general,it creates or updates a local package repository (within the
+TL installer directories). The resulting local repository will be
+picked up automatically by the installer as a default one. The new
+repository is not enabled untill all packages have been downloaded and
+verified.
+
+If the download is interrupted for any reason, just rerun this script
+again to complete it. It will pick upwhere it left off.
=head1 AUTHORS AND COPYRIGHT