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diff --git a/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt b/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt
index 19b19949c61..3d14881c325 100644
--- a/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt
+++ b/Master/tlpkg/doc/releng.txt
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ commit (which is the next item, in Part II).
rev=57871 # for 2021 (svn info in trunk)
tlyear=`date +%Y -d "last year"` # presumably
umask 022 # keep TL files non-group-writable
- branch=branch$tlyear
+ branch=branch$tlyear.final
svn copy -r $rev \
-m"$branch branch based on r$rev" \
svn://tug.org/texlive/trunk svn://tug.org/texlive/branches/$branch
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ Also run fmtutil-user --all to check that all formats build, no config file
problems. Ensure that web2c/texmf.cnf is updated for the current year
(per above). Then, so things will get redone later as another check:
rm -rf ~/.texlive`date +%Y` # the new one
+(For karl@tug.org: create at least pdflatex.fmt and xelatex.fmt for bnb.)
7. Check for Build-maintained updates to config files, new files, etc.
(might have to merge back if Master was mistakenly updated):
@@ -472,6 +473,12 @@ svn co svn://tug.org/texlive/branches/branch$this/Build/source . >&out
# svn://tug.org/texlive/tags/texlive-$bt
(Using urls makes for an immediate commit, which is what we want.)
+By the way, in the event of a mistaken delete, the material is best
+recovered with, where 57911 is the good revision to restore from:
+ svn merge -r HEAD:57911 .
+so as to keep the version history, which retrieving the files and
+re-adding would not do.
+
- update ~karl/bin/cron.tl, and reenable when feel ready:
critical=
pretest=