Gentlemen and Ladies, I am using ConTeXt on a company Windows PC behind two firewalls with no possibility of accessing or changing the firewalls. I've tried to update using the minimals installation and rsync, but nothing gets through. What is the recommended method of updating to the latest ConTeXt when rsync is not an option? The last time I tried, I downloaded cont-tmf.zip from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm and unzipped the contents to overwrite everything in texmf-local. Is this still the best way? Thanks. Richard Converteam UK Ltd. Registration Number: 5571739 and Converteam Ltd. Registration Number: 2416188 Registered in England and Wales. Registered office: Boughton Road, Rugby, Warwickshire, CV21 1BU. CONFIDENTIALITY : This e-mail and any attachments are confidential and may be privileged. If you are not a named recipient, please notify the sender immediately and do not disclose the contents to another person, use it for any purpose or store or copy the information in any medium. Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail
richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:
Gentlemen and Ladies,
I am using ConTeXt on a company Windows PC behind two firewalls with no possibility of accessing or changing the firewalls. I've tried to update using the minimals installation and rsync, but nothing gets through. What is the recommended method of updating to the latest ConTeXt when rsync is not an option?
The last time I tried, I downloaded cont-tmf.zip from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm and unzipped the contents to overwrite everything in texmf-local. Is this still the best way?
should work ok - unzip in relevant tree - mktexlsr - luatools --generate - luatools --selfupdate - mtxrun --selfupdate - texexec --make (for mkii) - context --make (for mkiv) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:23,
Gentlemen and Ladies,
I am using ConTeXt on a company Windows PC behind two firewalls with no possibility of accessing or changing the firewalls. I've tried to update using the minimals installation and rsync, but nothing gets through. What is the recommended method of updating to the latest ConTeXt when rsync is not an option?
The last time I tried, I downloaded cont-tmf.zip from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm and unzipped the contents to overwrite everything in texmf-local. Is this still the best way?
If you use mkiv, you might need to update binaries as well. Mojca
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 10:23, richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:
Gentlemen and Ladies,
I am using ConTeXt on a company Windows PC behind two firewalls with no possibility of accessing or changing the firewalls. I've tried to update using the minimals installation and rsync, but nothing gets through. What is the recommended method of updating to the latest ConTeXt when rsync is not an option?
The last time I tried, I downloaded cont-tmf.zip from http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm and unzipped the contents to overwrite everything in texmf-local. Is this still the best way?
I have no time to explore myself for the next few months, but if anyone comes up with a solution, I can fix it (if anything should be fixed on server, but maybe fixing locally could be enough). There are some online tutorials about how to circumvent firewall problems using ssh tunelling. http://forums.exabytes.com/linux-control-panel-cpanel/102-using-rsync-throug... http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/firewall.html On the other hand, the installer could detect a problem of "firewall" or "network connection problem" and return some nicer error report instead of trying to run rsync even after the first attempt has faild. Mojca
On Thursday 28 May 2009 21:36:38 Mojca Miklavec wrote:
There are some online tutorials about how to circumvent firewall problems using ssh tunelling.
http://forums.exabytes.com/linux-control-panel-cpanel/102-using-rsync-throu gh-firewall.html http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync/firewall.html
I regularly use ssh tunnels to circumvent firewall problems. Basically, it requires a few simple and readily available tools (ssh, nc). For example (under linux), it can be as simple as setting up the file $HOME/.ssh/config Host contextgarden.net ProxyCommand nohup ssh firewall_host_name nc -w1 %h %p Then, rsync -e ssh -ptv rsync://contextgarden.net/minimals/setup/first-setup.sh . just works... (This scheme requires nc [netcat] be available on the firewall)
On Thu, 28 May 2009, richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:
I am using ConTeXt on a company Windows PC behind two firewalls with no possibility of accessing or changing the firewalls. I've tried to update using the minimals installation and rsync, but nothing gets through. What is the recommended method of updating to the latest ConTeXt when rsync is not an option?
Perhaps this could be an easy option: 1.) install on PC with direct internet connection (no firewall problems) 2.) put the context directory on a usb-stick 3.) copy from usb-stick to PC behind firewall If this is not possible, perhaps the firewall is open for http? Then someone else with a Windows PC could prepare for you an archive and put it on an http-server? Cheers, Peter -- Contact information: http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/
2009/5/29 Peter Münster
If this is not possible, perhaps the firewall is open for http? Then someone else with a Windows PC could prepare for you an archive and put it on an http-server? Why not do it directly on minimals.contextgarden.net?
[OT - for binaries maintainer] Even sources should be packaged in a zip file. After recent Mojca's changes I rsynced for a whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiile Cheers -- Diego Depaoli
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 18:07, Diego Depaoli wrote:
2009/5/29 Peter Münster
: If this is not possible, perhaps the firewall is open for http? Then someone else with a Windows PC could prepare for you an archive and put it on an http-server? Why not do it directly on minimals.contextgarden.net?
There are zips on http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/, but one still needs to fetch everything more or less manually (when there are changes, one needs to fetch the whole zip). Or what exactly would you like to see in that zip? One thing that might be worth trying is to try to set a tunnel with putty. From what I read I guess that it should work, but I have no experience and no windows machine. Mojca
2009/5/30 Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 18:07, Diego Depaoli wrote:
2009/5/29 Peter Münster
: If this is not possible, perhaps the firewall is open for http? Then someone else with a Windows PC could prepare for you an archive and put it on an http-server? Why not do it directly on minimals.contextgarden.net?
There are zips on http://minimals.contextgarden.net/pragma/, but one still needs to fetch everything more or less manually (when there are changes, one needs to fetch the whole zip).
Or what exactly would you like to see in that zip? Up to date binaries. W32tex's zipped files are an example.
Regards -- Diego Depaoli
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Alan BRASLAU
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Hans Hagen
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Mojca Miklavec
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Peter Münster
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