[tex-live] Mac OS TeX Live Utility points to out of date repositories

Alan Litchfield alan at alphabyte.co.nz
Wed Feb 25 04:54:24 CET 2015


Thanks :)

Alan

On 25/02/15 4:27 pm, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>
>> On Feb 24, 2015, at 19:14 , Alan Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz> wrote:
>>
>> I have just been testing a new disk image on which the TeXLive 2014 has been
>> installed. The MacTeX TeX Live Utility is installed and defaults to
>> http://mirror.as24220.net/pub/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/
>
> No, TeX Live Utility defaults to the CTAN multiplexor.
>
>> but we want to set
>> it to the local mirror in New Zealand at
>> http://mirror.aut.ac.nz/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/
>>
>> However the New Zealand listing in the utility points to an out of date mirror
>> at http://elena.aut.ac.nz/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet. This was corrected on
>> the master list or repositories last year.
>
>  From a quick look at the revision history, the latest version
> has the more recent server in it:
>
> https://github.com/amaxwell/tlutility/releases/tag/1.19
>
> This only affects the list of repositories in the UI, of course;
> you can set whatever URL you want as the default. I generally
> update the list every time I do a release, but it's just there
> as a convenience.
>
> Adam
>

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