[tex-live] tlmgr option autobackup -1
Norbert Preining
preining at logic.at
Sun May 3 16:19:41 CEST 2009
On Sa, 02 Mai 2009, Harald Koenig wrote:
> harald > tlmgr option autobackup -1
> Unknown option: 1
Bummer. You are right. GetOpt is trying to evaluate the -1 as option.
I have to think about it.
> harald > tlmgr option autobackup=-1
> Option autobackup=-1 is currently not supported.
>
> and the usage of " -- " is not documented in the man page:
>
> harald > sudo tlmgr -- option autobackup -1
> tlmgr: setting option autobackup to -1.
Thanks for pointing that out. I guess I have to squeeze my head to do
make it do something reasonable.
> one more comment about setting "backupdir":
>
> "tlmgr backupdir /does/not/exist" does not warn that the backup directory
> does not exist yet (and/or ask to create it) which would be helpful.
> right now the next update will just fail because of the missing directory...
Well, at option setting time that could be an external drive or so, I
don't want to warn at that point.
Best wishes
Norbert
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