[tex-live] Announcing TLContrib

[Axel E. Retif]

On  8 Oct, 2010, at 13:36, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> Hello everybody,
> 
> Please allow me to introduce a new project: TLContrib.
> 
> TLContrib is a website + repository that hosts contributed packages
> for TeX Live 2010. The packages on TLContrib are packages that are
> not distributed inside TeX Live proper for one or another of following
> reasons:
> 
> * because it is not free software according to the Debian guidelines;
> * because it is a binary update;
> 
> [...]
> 
> Quick start: to use TLContrib as a TeX Live repository, point the TeX
> Live package manager to http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010/

Great! I just tried (on a Mac)

tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010/ update --all --list

and it gave me a list of binaries to update (ConTeXt, LuaTeX, Metapost); then I checked my LuaTeX version: ``This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.60.2-2010071217 (TeX Live 2010) (rev 3736)'', and then

sudo tlmgr --repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010/ update luatex

tlmgr: package repository http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/2010/
tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/backups
[1/3, ??:??/??:??] update: luatex.universal-darwin [2545k] (19430 -> 19431) ... done
[2/3, 00:27/00:51] update: luatex.x86_64-darwin [1478k] (19430 -> 19431) ... done
[3/3, 00:43/00:51] update: luatex [809k] (19324 -> 19328) ... done
tlmgr: package log updated at /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
running mktexlsr ...
done running mktexlsr.
regenerating fmtutil.cnf in /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf-var
running fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-format --byengine luatex ...
done running fmtutil-sys --no-error-if-no-format --byengine luatex.

And now I have ``LuaTeX, Version beta-0.63.0-2010091123''.

Very nice! Thank you and Mojca (the darwin LuaTeX maintainer)!


Axel