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cygport: building texlive-collection-* during pretest
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: cygwin-apps <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:32:05 -0400
- Subject: cygport: building texlive-collection-* during pretest
Yaakov,
Prior to each year's TeX Live release, there is a lengthy pretest period during which the normal tlnet archive (mirror://ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive, in cygport language) is frozen. All updates during this period are done to a special pretest archive with various mirrors.
I thought I could simplify building and testing the texlive-collection-* packages during this period by applying the attached patch and then putting something like the following in my cygport.conf:
TLNET_ARCHIVE_URI="http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub//texlive/tlpretest/archive"
I tried this, and it doesn't seem to work. When I give a 'cygport texlive-collection-* fetch' command, it still uses the regular ctan mirror. I have two questions:
1. Why doesn't my approach work?
2. How do you suggest dealing with this?
Thanks.
Ken
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