[tex-live] Misplaced context files

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Tue Sep 1 21:35:46 CEST 2009


On Di, 01 Sep 2009, Dan Luecking wrote:
> context.doc.tar they are not in any directory and end

They are in the right directory, but the tar we ship on Windows
seems to have problems with too deep directories. We are investigating
this already, but ... well ... we need a better tar ;-)

> Could this be similar to the long-line problem with tar we
> had for the pgf package? Or is it just a packaging mistake?

No you are right, it is a long line problem.

Best wishes

Norbert

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