[Context] Important: ConTeXt Minimals and --delete/--keep switch
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Hello, This is a rather important notice for users of ConTeXt minimals. You might want to add --keep to ./first-setup.sh There are some options for which I'm not sure if they should be enabled by default or not. The script (mtx-update.lua and consequently the simplistic ./first-setup.sh script) provides two switches: --keep and --delete. The --delete switch deletes all the files that are not part of distribution. The --keep switch doesn't care about those files (that have been remove from distribution or that you added) and leaves them where they are. Your own files should go to texmf-local that update doesn't touch at all. Now the important info: if you want your files to be kept, you should use the --keep switch in ./first-setup.sh. --delete has been misfunctional for a while, and maybe it should not be kept as the default option. But as it stands now, it is the default. Recently there has been a new option added (--extras=list,of,context,modules), but I would like the option to be renamed to something more self-explanatory than --extras= (--modules= for example). You can test if fetching modules works OK, but I would like to rename the option. Mojca (Maybe we should add --cvs-exclude rule to rsync to prevent deleting kpathsea files and formats.)
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Mojca Miklavec wrote:
(Maybe we should add --cvs-exclude rule to rsync to prevent deleting kpathsea files and formats.)
hm, but formats are regenerated anyway so why bother Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------
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On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Mojca Miklavec wrote:
(Maybe we should add --cvs-exclude rule to rsync to prevent deleting kpathsea files and formats.)
hm, but formats are regenerated anyway so why bother
It depends on user. Format generation takes quite some time. When there is no ConTeXt version or binary update, I usually don't regenerate formats at all. (There can be a module update or no update at all, so I have --make switched off.) Mojca
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