TeX Live and MacTeX ⇒ tug.org sources and other tarball

[tijl]

1. On tug.org FTP (ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/2014/) there are four tar.xz:

*-bin.tar.xz (precompilled bins for many platforms)
*-sources.tar.xz (sources for making bins)
*-devsources.tar.xz (???)
*-extra.tar.xz (???)
*-texmf.tar.xz (???)

-- What are 'devsources' and 'extra' and 'texmf' archives?

2. These two tarball also available in another folder are needed to install tree and future update tlmgr:

ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh

First is installer (netinstaller, more specific) and second is tlmgr-updater, isn't it?

3. I have used '*-sources.tar.xz' to build my own binaries (custom) and 'install-tl-unx.tar.gz' to install TexLive.

-- What should I download to install TexLive by install-tl script without the internet?
Maybe iso-image? or rsync some dir? (I means 'current' version).

[Stefan Kottwitz]

I would download the ISO image. It's pretty new still.

If you are curious what those tarballs contain, perhaps download and look at the contents, there may be a "readme" file.

Stefan