skip mactex files when setting up trial dir.

git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@44116 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlnet b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlnet
index c9a391d4b60..85b94a544f0 100755
--- a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlnet
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlnet
@@ -78,7 +78,16 @@ cp --force --backup $tlweb/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb* /tmp
 rm -rf $tltrybase
 mkdir -p $tltry
 chmod g+w $tltry
-cp -al $tlweb/* $tltry  # assuming GNU cp
+
+# cp/link files in a loop so we can exclude the mactex files, which is a
+# waste of time, and more importantly can uselessly fail due to permissions.
+for f in $tlweb/*; do
+  if echo "$f" | grep mactex >/dev/null; then
+    : # skip mactex
+  else
+    cp -al "$f" $tltry  # assume GNU cp so we can link instead of copy
+  fi
+done
 
 # Update packages in our working dir.
 echo "$0: Updating $tltry with cow-shell..."