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authorKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2009-08-27 00:28:59 +0000
committerKarl Berry <karl@freefriends.org>2009-08-27 00:28:59 +0000
commit309961c114541e4a5380c4e895de9d5eec93b65d (patch)
treec203552827e333e703230ff1af4460cc6895f730 /Master
parent074c3a54c583c5f495a409e5dbcf63292f85ec84 (diff)
doc tweaks
git-svn-id: svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk@14881 c570f23f-e606-0410-a88d-b1316a301751
Diffstat (limited to 'Master')
-rwxr-xr-xMaster/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl41
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 20 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
index d1de43bc27e..812f9644fe5 100755
--- a/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
+++ b/Master/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl
@@ -3904,13 +3904,14 @@ name and its value.
=item B<--repository> I<url|path>
-Specifies the package repository from which packages should be
-installed or updated, overriding the default package repository
-found in the installation's TeX Live Package Database (TLPDB).
-The documentation for C<install-tl> has more details about this.
+Specifies the package repository from which packages should be installed
+or updated, overriding the default package repository found in the
+installation's TeX Live Package Database (TLPDB, file name of
+C<texlive.tlpdb>). The documentation for C<install-tl> has more details
+about this.
-For convenience and backward compatibility both C<--location> and
-C<--repo> are accepted as aliases for this option.
+For backward compatibility and convenience, C<--location> and C<--repo>
+are accepted as aliases for this option.
=item B<--gui> [I<action>]
@@ -4299,14 +4300,14 @@ Possible values for I<key> are (but see B<tlmgr option showall> for
the definitive list):
repository (default package repository),
- formats (create formats at installation time),
- docfiles (install documentation files),
- srcfiles (install source files),
- backupdir (default directory for backups),
+ formats (create formats at installation time),
+ docfiles (install documentation files),
+ srcfiles (install source files),
+ backupdir (default directory for backups),
autobackup (number of backups to keep).
- sys_bin (location where binaries are linked to by action path)
- sys_man (location where man pages are linked to by action path)
- sys_info (location where info pages are linked to by action path)
+ sys_bin (directory to which executables are linked by the path action)
+ sys_man (directory to which man pages are linked by the path action)
+ sys_info (directory to which Info files are linked by the path action)
One common use of C<option> is to permanently change the installation to
get further updates from the Internet, after originally installing from
@@ -4498,8 +4499,8 @@ outputs their dependencies in a similar way.
=head2 list [--only-installed] [collections|schemes|I<pkg>...]
-With no argument, lists all packages available at the package repository,
-prefixing those already installed with C<i>.
+With no argument, lists all packages available at the package
+repository, prefixing those already installed with C<i>.
With the single word C<collections> or C<schemes> as the argument, lists
the request type.
@@ -4548,8 +4549,8 @@ Options:
=item B<--use-svn>
-Use svn status instead of listing the files, for checking the
-development repository.
+Use the output of C<svn status> instead of listing the files; for
+checking the TL development repository.
=back
@@ -4602,7 +4603,7 @@ Notwithstanding the above, if you only use the fonts and font packages
within TeX Live, and maintain your local fonts (if any) using
C<updmap-local.cfg>, there is nothing wrong with using C<generate
updmap>. Indeed, we use it ourselves to generate the C<updmap.cfg> file
-that is maintained in the live source repository.
+in the live source repository.
In more detail: C<generate> remakes any of the four config files
C<language.dat>, C<language.def>, C<fmtutil.cnf>, and C<updmap.cfg> from
@@ -4715,8 +4716,8 @@ Line endings may be either LF or CRLF depending on the current platform.
=item C<location-url> I<location>
The I<location> may be a url (including C<file:///foo/bar/...>), or a
-directory name (C</foo/bar>). It is the use package repository
-from which the new package information was drawn.
+directory name (C</foo/bar>). It is the package repository from which
+the new package information was drawn.
=item C<total-bytes> I<count>