Am 14.01.2014 um 18:47 schrieb <[email protected]> <[email protected]
>:
On Tue, 14 Jan 2014, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 9:53 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
Does running tlmgr work to keep it updated?
Running apt-get keeps it updated, and in some newer distros this is
automated.
Okay. What I was really wondering was whether that tracks the latest
versions that would be available through tlmgr, or if there's a
separate
layer of packaging such that "current Debain" might not be as
current as
"current TeXLive."
with Debian (even current) you will typicall not as up-to-date as with
tlmgr. Debian (and also other distros that use regular releases)
typically freeze all software packes when they do a new release. The
reasing behind this is that users expect to get the very same results
through the entire lifetime of the distribution when running a "latex
whatever". This means you will only get security updates, but *no*
feature updates. This is different for distros that do so-called
"rolling releases", like Gentoo or Arch. Running apt-get will *not*
get you the lastest stuff from CTAN. It will only update the packages
if there was a real bug.
-stefan
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