Re: cygport patches for TeX Live

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 12/16/2014 5:49 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> Now that setup.exe supports perpetual postinstall scripts, I'd like to
> streamline the TeX Live postinstall process.  I'm attaching two perpetual
> postinstall scripts that I'd like to use (one before the ordinary postinstall
> scripts and one after), as well as four cygport patches.
>
> With these changes, I was able to reduce the total postinstall time for a
> complete TeX Live install from 48 minutes to 14 minutes on my system.
>
> Here's a summary of the changes and the reasons for them.
>
> 1. The most time-consuming command in the current postinstall process is
> mktexlsr, which is run many times.  The proposed changes reduce this to one
> call, at the beginning; all remaining postinstall commands keep the ls-R files
> up to date at minimal cost.
>
> 2. Another somewhat time-consuming command is updmap.  Each call (even just to
> enable or disable a map) takes at least 2-3 seconds.  If several maps are
> enabled/disabled at once, there's no noticeable increase in time.  The proposed
> changes use just one call to updmap to enable all maps.
>
> 3. Similarly, there are a lot of unnecessary calls to fc-cache.  I've reduced
> that to a single call, at the end.
>
> I'm open to suggestions as to better ways to do all this.

Sorry, there was a stupid mistake in one of the patches.  The corrected one is 
attached.

Ken

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