[tex-live] testing tlmgr again

Werner LEMBERG wl at gnu.org
Thu Oct 9 06:33:45 CEST 2008


> > >ziffer cannot be found in ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical
> > >zwgetfdate cannot be found in ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical
> > >UPDATER has been created, please execute tlpkg\installer\updater.bat
> 
> That *cannot* be changed since at that time you are using the *old*
> tlmgr and are *installing* the new one.

This isn't obvious apparently.  What about adding something like

  Note: while updating, the old tlmgr stuff is used, thus expect
  warnings like

    foo cannot be found in ...

  about packages not found.  In the second run, the new data is used,
  and those messages should disappear.

to a pop-up window (or whatever) before the actual updating process starts?


    Werner


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