[tex-live] So far.....expensive failure

T T t34www at googlemail.com
Sun Feb 17 17:03:30 CET 2013


On 15 February 2013 09:05, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> b) There was an exe file to assist with making the equivalent of iso
> file (mirroring the whole repository), only with the newest package.
> So something that would run rsync or wget to fetch or update the whole
> repository to the local filesystem. Then everyone who would want to
> assist the students with installation from DVD or USB could run the
> program and burn the newly fetched repository instead of downloading
> the iso file with the one year old distribution.

Not an exe file, but I wrote once a perl script (+ .bat wrapper for
win32) to download/update a package repository for the local
installer:

http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/22362/how-to-mirror-tex-live/22367#22367

Cheers,

Tomek


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