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-rwxr-xr-x | Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl | 12 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl index f3b7d61b89d..1117e5e94e1 100755 --- a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl +++ b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ #!/usr/bin/env perl # $Id$ # -# Copyright 2008-2016 Norbert Preining +# Copyright 2008-2017 Norbert Preining # This file is licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2 # or any later version. # @@ -6540,9 +6540,11 @@ with C<tlmgr>: =item C<tlmgr option repository http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet> Tell C<tlmgr> to use a nearby CTAN mirror for future updates; useful if -you installed TeX Live from the DVD image and want continuing +you installed TeX Live from the DVD image and want to have continuing updates. The two commands are equivalent; C<ctan> is just an alias for -the given url. +the given url. Caveat: C<mirror.ctan.org> resolves to many different +hosts, and they are not perfectly synchronized; we recommend updating +only daily (at most), and not more often. =item C<tlmgr update --list> @@ -7741,8 +7743,8 @@ C<tlmgr> saves a copy of the C<texlive.tlpdb> file used for an update with a suffix representing the repository url, as in C<tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.>I<long-hash-string>. These can be useful for fallback information, but if you don't like them accumulating (e.g., -on each run C<mirror.ctan.org> might resolve to a new host, resulting in -a different hash), it's harmless to delete them. +C<mirror.ctan.org> resolves to many different hosts, each resulting in +a possibly different hash), it's harmless to delete them. =head1 CONFIGURATION FILE FOR TLMGR |