cygport: building texlive-collection-* during pretest

[Ken Brown]

Yaakov,

Prior to each year's TeX Live release, there is a lengthy pretest period during which the normal tlnet archive (mirror://ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive, in cygport language) is frozen.  All updates during this period are done to a special pretest archive with various mirrors.

I thought I could simplify building and testing the texlive-collection-* packages during this period by applying the attached patch and then putting something like the following in my cygport.conf:

TLNET_ARCHIVE_URI="http://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub//texlive/tlpretest/archive"

I tried this, and it doesn't seem to work.  When I give a 'cygport texlive-collection-* fetch' command, it still uses the regular ctan mirror.  I have two questions:

1. Why doesn't my approach work?

2. How do you suggest dealing with this?

Thanks.

Ken
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--- texlive.cygclass.orig	2012-06-22 11:47:18.000000000 -0400
+++ texlive.cygclass	2012-06-22 14:58:27.159468300 -0400
@@ -74,6 +74,11 @@
 
 TEXLIVE_ARCH="i386-cygwin"
 
+if ! defined TLNET_ARCHIVE_URI
+then
+	TLNET_ARCHIVE_URI="mirror://ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive"
+fi
+
 #****o* texlive.cygclass/SRC_URI (texlive)
 #  DESCRIPTION
 #  SRC_URI is constructed automatically based on the value of TEXLIVE_TEXMF_PKGS,
@@ -81,16 +86,16 @@
 #****
 for pkg in ${TEXLIVE_TEXMF_PKGS}
 do
-	SRC_URI+=" mirror://ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/$pkg.tar.xz"
+	SRC_URI+=" ${TLNET_ARCHIVE_URI}/$pkg.tar.xz"
 done
 for pkg in ${TEXLIVE_ARCH_PKGS}
 do
-	SRC_URI+=" mirror://ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/$pkg.tar.xz"
-	SRC_URI+=" mirror://ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/$pkg.${TEXLIVE_ARCH}.tar.xz"
+	SRC_URI+=" ${TLNET_ARCHIVE_URI}/$pkg.tar.xz"
+	SRC_URI+=" ${TLNET_ARCHIVE_URI}/$pkg.${TEXLIVE_ARCH}.tar.xz"
 done
 for pkg in ${TEXLIVE_DOC_PKGS}
 do
-	SRC_URI+=" mirror://ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/archive/$pkg.doc.tar.xz"
+	SRC_URI+=" ${TLNET_ARCHIVE_URI}/$pkg.doc.tar.xz"
 done
 unset pkg