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| author | Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> | 2018-11-22 05:58:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at> | 2018-11-22 05:58:42 +0000 |
| commit | 17de941a77395dfa14d6b3aba8f4aee4f607bc6c (patch) | |
| tree | 52256079df9e57d3d67fb3b3c6f8005c33590920 /Master | |
| parent | 8b54833d2139dc9e97b053da082d7cd41588b359 (diff) | |
add documentation for TEXLIVE_PREFER_OWN
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@49219 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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| -rwxr-xr-x | Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl index ed0461e9568..d72ba3983e5 100755 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl @@ -9733,6 +9733,18 @@ If wget is available (either from the system or TL) and working, use that. TL still provides C<wget> binaries for some platforms, so some download method should always be available. +=item C<TEXLIVE_PREFER_OWN> + +By default, programs provided by the system, i.e., found in the C<PATH> are +preferred over those shipped with TeX Live. In particular, if C<xz> is found +in the C<PATH> somewhere, this version is used instead of the one included +in TeX Live. + +This can create problems with too old systems, and can be overriden by +setting the environment variable C<TEXLIVE_PREFER_OWN> to 1. In this case +TeX Live will prefer programs for compressor and downloader as shipped with +TeX Live over their respective variants provided by the system. + =back |