Those strange 00texlive packages ================================ 00texlive.config ---------------- contains configuration options about the tlnet archive and the distribution itself. Supported settings: container_split_src_files $tlpdb->config_src_container container_split_doc_files $tlpdb->config_doc_container container_format/xz $tlpdb->config_container_format release/NNNN $tlpdb->config_release revision/NNNNNN $tlpdb->config_revision frozen/[01] $tlpdb->config_frozen Used in install-tl and tlmgr to determine the "abilities" (split container) and release of the remote tlpdb. Origin of the fields is %TeXLive::TLConfig::TLPDBConfigs plus TLMedia->revision for the revision field. The values are set by tlpkg/bin/tl-update-tlnet (and tlpsrc2tlpdb) in the generated tlpdb from the default values as given in %TLPDBConfigs. 00texlive.installation ---------------------- (from the tlpsrc itself) This package serves two purposes: 1. at installation time the present values are taken as default for the installer 2. on an installed system it serves as a configuration file. We have to remember these settings for additional package installation, removal, etc. In the tlpsrc itself only those options are saved that are used *ONLY* at installation time, currently opt_paper, opt_path, opt_frozen. These will longdesc be saved in the local tlpdb and will not be accessible by tlmgr. All other options are set from TLConfig::TLPDBOptions to the default values specified there. There are two types here: - If the key starts with opt_ this is an options that can be set by the user either at installation time or via tlmgr later on - If the key starts with setting_ this value cannot be changed by the user directly with tlmgr, but only by other actions. Currently there are only two settings supported of which one is only used in special cases: . setting_available_architectures lists all available platforms and should be always present . setting_platform *overrides* the auto-deteced platform. This setting will only be present when you forced a sepcific architecture with -force-arch to install-tl The value of __MASTER__ for the location field tells the installer to use the present directory itself. For example, the DVD can be mounted anywhere and we want the installer to work. Access to the fields: $tlpdb->option("name"[, "val"]); $tlpdb->setting("name"); Currently supported: opt_location:__MASTER__ opt_paper:a4 opt_create_formats:1 opt_desktop_integration:1 opt_file_assocs:1 opt_post_code:1 opt_w32_multi_user:1 opt_path:0 opt_sys_bin:/usr/local/bin opt_sys_info:/usr/local/info opt_sys_man:/usr/local/man opt_install_docfiles:1 opt_install_srcfiles:1 opt_frozen:0 setting_available_architectures:arch1 arch2 arch3 ... setting_platform:arch Origin of the fields: For most of the fields it is %TeXLive::TLConfig::TLPDBOptions, and for opt_paper, opt_path, and opt_frozen the 00texlive.installation.tlpsrc 00texlive.image --------------- (from the tlpsrc itself) This package collects some files which are not caught by any of the other TL packages. Its purpose is to make the file coverage check happy. The files here are not copied by the installer and containers are not built; they exist only in the full DVD image or the installer archives. The IgnorePatterns in the check_files routine in tlmgr.pl augment this list. 00texlive.installer ------------------- (from the tlpsrc itself) This package defines the files to go into the installer archives (install-tl-unx.tar.gz, install-tl.zip) built by the tl-make-installer script. Most of what's here is also included in the texlive.infra package -- ordinarily duplicates are not allowed, but in this case, 00texlive.installer is never used *except* to build the installer archives, so it's ok.