I'm trying to put everything together so potential problems are easily
identifiable, and so that a recipe or shell script can perhaps be put
on the wiki.
On Dec 23, 2007 5:08 AM, Mojca Miklavec
Also, if you already have a working TeX distribution, you can write a few rsync calls yourself. At http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/ you have: - current ConTeXt - almost-latest binaries - fonts any you can combine the stuff from there in some arbitrary way.
So, since I have a working TeX from Ubuntu, I want to put all the "new" stuff in my TEXMFHOME (A.K.A. ~/texmf). To this end, I could use some help putting the rsync calls together. In each case the command will take the form "rsync --recursive --perms --compress --checksum --times --links --verbose rsync://<something>/ ~/texmf/<somewhere>", which I'll abbreviate in this email as "rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/... ~/texmf/..." (so lines don't get broken at inconvenient times). The basic ConTeXt stuff gets pulled in, as Mojca suggested, thus: rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/context/current/ ~/texmf/ Next, I want to get the up-to-date binaries, for which I'd like to do something like rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/bin/[*]/linux/ ~/texmf/ where I either need to write a separate line for each of {common, context, luatex, metapost, pdftex, xetex}, or have a single command that includes them all. (Since I intend to put this all in a shell script, a bit of duplication isn't a problem.) This will put "/current/bin/[package]/[system]/bin/[whatever]" into "~/texmf/bin/", where I think they belong in an installed system. The manuals seem to be in a somewhat odd place (under bin!); I'd use rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/bin/man/ ~/texmf/ but no programs should care where they are; this is my own use. In fact, perhaps I should put the man pages where the man system can find them. I'll leave this for another day. NB: I have no idea whether I need the stuff in "/current/base" or "/current/misc", nor where in the texmf tree they would go. I won't be installing any modules now, so I can ignore that part of the tree. The fonts are, like the binaries, in a "/current/fonts/[group]/fonts/[format]/..." tree, and the installed system should have them in "~/texmf/fonts/[format]/...", so I need another four lines of the sort rsync -rvzctlp rs://cg.net/minimals/current/fonts/[*]/ ~/texmf/ where [*] is one of {common, new, old, other}. (Are there any I really don't need or want?) I add ~/texmf/bin to the front of my PATH. And then I follow all that up with a rebuilding of the format files with texexec -- make --all texexec -- make --all --xtx texexec -- make --all --lua (Will the formats be made in TEXMFHOME or somewhere else?) If this passes the sanity check with you guys, and if I can get answers to the stuff I'm unsure on, I'll try it & report back. --Joel