[tex-live] Restoring from a backup to TEXMFLOCAL?

[jfbu]

Le 4 oct. 2012 à 22:18, Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard.kotucha at web.de> a écrit :

> On 2012-10-04 at 20:18:15 +0200, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> On 01/10/2012 17:13, jfbu wrote:
>>> is there an option for tlmgr
>>> to restore a backup-ed package into
>>> the *TEXMFLOCAL* directory?
>>> 
>> There is no such tlmgr option: tlmgr never touches TEXMFLOCAL.
>> 
>> However, backups of TeX Live packages are simple tar archives. It
>> should be easy enough to just untar the backup file in TEXMFLOCAL,
>> then delete the tlpkg directory. 
> 
> Hi Jean-Francois,
> please don't remove the tlpkg directory immediately.  After unpacking
> the tar.xz file amd running mktexlsr, look into .tlpobj files in the
> tlpkg directory.  Especially check whether they contain lines
> beginning with the word "execute".  These lines provide information
> about things which have to be done after unpacking the archive.  For
> example, the font package cantarell.r25752.tar.xz
> 
> contains a file
> 
>  tlpkg/tlpobj/cantarell.tlpobj
> 
> with the line
> 
>  execute addMap cantarell.map
> 
> This means that you have to install the map file using updmap.  Thus,
> the .tlpobj file at least reminds you that you're not finished yet and
> maybe provides some useful information.  It's more difficult to find
> out later why something doesn't work.
> 
>> (At least, this is for packages which lived in only one tree.
>> Packages with files in both TEXMFMAIN and TEXMFDIST are more
>> complicated.)
>> 
>> Please let us know if it worked or if you have additional questions.
> 
> I suppose that most packages are removed due to their licenses.
> However, some packages are removed because commercial use or charging
> money for redistribution is prohibited.  In this case there is a much
> better solution: Upload it to
> 
>   http://tlcontrib.metatex.org/
> 
> and install from there using tlmgr.  Yes, recent versions of tlmgr can
> install additional packages from this repository too.  The advantage
> is that others benefit from your effort as well.  If you have any
> questions, the TLContrib home page has a link to its mailing list.
> 
> Regards,
>  Reinhard
> 
> -- 

Thank you Reinhard, for the information about TLContrib. I will look it up.

Regards,

Jean-Francois