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authorNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>2016-03-31 00:38:03 +0000
committerNorbert Preining <preining@logic.at>2016-03-31 00:38:03 +0000
commitc21673e7294691054db42ff86a1543462aef584a (patch)
tree50904a974f51f0d31c1ff0e1fb33318db08c1bc9 /Master
parente85c764560050fdd9a82a646ac9bf24488de7902 (diff)
add documentation for allowed-commands
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@40189 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
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-rwxr-xr-xMaster/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl22
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
index e55adf213bd..54f8e778daa 100755
--- a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
+++ b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
@@ -7559,13 +7559,17 @@ creates configuration files in user tree
=head1 CONFIGURATION FILE FOR TLMGR
-A small subset of the command line options can be set in a config file
-for C<tlmgr> which resides in C<TEXMFCONFIG/tlmgr/config>. By default, the
-config file is in C<~/.texliveYYYY/texmf-config/tlmgr/config> (replacing
-C<YYYY> with the year of your TeX Live installation). This is I<not>
-C<TEXMFSYSVAR>, so that the file is specific to a single user.
+There are two configuration files for C<tlmgr>: One is system wide
+in C<TEXMFSYSCONFIG/tlmgr/config>, and one user-specific in
+C<TEXMFCONFIG/tlmgr/config> (which is in the default setup
+C<~/.texliveYYYY/texmf-config/tlmgr/config> replacing
+C<YYYY> with the year of your TeX Live installation).
-In this file, empty lines and lines starting with # are ignored. All
+A small subset of the command line options can be set in these
+configuration file. In addition, the system-wide can contain a directive
+to restrict the number of allowed actions.
+
+In these config files, empty lines and lines starting with # are ignored. All
other lines must look like
key = value
@@ -7579,6 +7583,12 @@ the respective command line options of the same name. C<gui-expertmode>
switches between the full GUI and a simplified GUI with only the
important and mostly used settings.
+In addition, the system-wide config file can contain the key
+C<allowed-actions>. The value is a comma separated list of actions that
+are allowed to be executed when C<tlmgr> is called in system mode (that is
+without C<--usermode>). This allows distributors to include the C<tlmgr>
+in the packaging but allow only for a very restricted set of actions not
+to interfere with package managers.
=head1 MULTIPLE REPOSITORIES