Am Tue, Mar 25, 2025 at 03:21:15PM +0100 schrieb Nicolas Goaziou: > The upgrade process is explained at length in the comments of the > "tex.scm" module in case anyone is curious about it. > I don’t keep track of anything. I let the importer tell me what packages > disappeared, and what are the new ones.
Thanks for the pointer to this very helpful text. > > And does it make sense to follow the yearly release schedule? Texlive > > has a Mastodon account, and they regularly post updates of single > > packages. Actually I am wrong, it is CTAN, not Texlive. And CTAN contains rather obscure packages, such as the thesis format for this or that university, which I suppose are not shipped as part of Texlive. > Currently, the `texlive' importer and updater is only able to handle > "yearly" releases, but it is possible to specify manually any SVN > revision for the TeX Live packages. > I think this granularity is sufficient, in particular when we consider > the sheer number of rebuilds changes to TeX Live packages usually > entail. Yes, definitely; I also brought it up in case more continuous upgrades would simplify the work by spreading the load, but it looks as if it is the other way round. I do not think we need more frequent updates. Andreas
