[tex-live] TeXLive Manager (numbers)

[George N. White III]

MikTeX has:

$ grep '\\def\\fontinstversion' ~/.wine-mt/drive_c/Program\
Files/MiKTeX\ 2.7/tex/fontinst/base/fontinst.sty
\def\fontinstversion{1.928}

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 7:42 AM, Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
> The question appeared on another (MacOSX) forum
>
>  /usr/local/texlive/2008/tlpkg/tlpobj/fontinst.tlpobj
>
> ends up with catalogue-version 1.928
>
> while
>
> /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/tex/fontinst/base/fontinst.sty
>
> contains line
>
> \def\fontinstversion{1.927}
>
> Is there a contradiction?
>
> My understanding is that those numbers have nothing to do with tlmgr:
>
> %tlmgr update --list
> returns
>
> fontinst: local: 7340, source: 10426
>
> and those numbers are for tlmgr but they are not stored in installed
> packages. My understanding is that number 10426 reflects both
> package-name and tlmgr-repacking-version.
>
> Would be nice to have it clarified
>
> Victor
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