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Diffstat (limited to 'Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers')
| -rwxr-xr-x | Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers | 15 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers index 1c50b03cc95..b37349212a1 100755 --- a/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers +++ b/Master/tlpkg/bin/tl-update-containers @@ -562,13 +562,14 @@ Forces rebuild of all containers, including creation of the output C<texlive.tlpdb> if need be. We used to recreate all containers for the release each year. Starting -with TL20, we no longer do this, since it causes files with the same name -(foo.tar.xz) to change contents, either just compression options, etc., -or because the Catalogue values changed. We did not normally push out -Catalogue-only changes to tlnet during the year since they frequently -happen without any change to the package itself. Now, instead of the -yearly recreate, we explicitly push Catalogue-only changes every so -often using C<tl-update-tlpdb --catalogue-compare> (from C<cron.tl>). +with TL20, we no longer do this, since it often causes files with the +same name (foo.tar.xz) to change contents, either due to compression +options, etc., or because the Catalogue values changed. We did not +normally push out Catalogue-only changes to tlnet during the year since +they frequently happen without any change to the package itself. Now, +instead of the yearly recreate, we explicitly push Catalogue-only +changes every so often using C<tl-update-tlpdb --catalogue-compare> +(from C<cron.tl>). The upshot is that C<-recreate> is now used only for the tlcritical repository in C<cron.tl>, and to make new repositories for testing; we |