Re: tlcritical installed tlmgr from TL26 in TL25

Hi Karl, hi Max,

> Yikes. Clearly not expected, or desirable. I never realized that was the
> behavior.  I guess no one else has ever had tlcritical enabled by
> default in all these years.  I don't myself.

I **do** but I have never seen this.

> Existing practice is/has been the opposite of what Norbert said. (Can

(sorry!!)

> that be right?! I *think* so. :) There is only one tlcritical repo, and
> when the pretest rolls around, I update it for the pretest, because
> that's what's changing. Put another way, the assumption is that tlnet
> will not have any critical changes once the pretest starts. So far,
> that assumption has proven true.

Hmmm, my brain is getting weak, but I thought it is the other way round,
that tlcritical is built from the branch that is going into the normal
tlnet.

This might be a regression from the time we changed to update normal
tlnet during pretest.

Before that, we stopped updating tlnet completely during pretest, and
probably also tlcritical.

> I'm not entirely sure how to defend against updating the
> tlcritical-for-pretest in tlnet. I don't think there's an easy way for
> tlmgr to know what version is in tlcritical before installing any

As I said, I think tlcritical should be built from the branch that
targets tlnet. 
And tlpretest is AFAIR already updating the telxive-infra package on
each rebuild?

As said, I might be completely wrong, but this might have been
introduced and not detected when we switched to update tlnet during
tlpretest builds.

Best regards

Norbert

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