[tex-live] something wrong at texlive?
Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd)
P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Mon Feb 16 16:46:40 CET 2009
Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I did some update today:
> some time later I repeated (just for curiosity) the update:
>
> amd2000bk:/home/bernhard# tlmgr update --all
> tlmgr: installation location
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
> context-letter: local revision (12168) is newer than revision in
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 (12145), not updating.
> imtekda: local revision (12169) is newer than revision in
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 (8643), not updating.
> tablor: local revision (12166) is newer than revision in
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 (12009), not updating.
> amd2000bk:/home/bernhard#
>
> A little strange, isn't it?
As Mirror.Ctan.Org does not have a fixed IP address,
it is by no means unlikely that the site that you
visited on your second attempt was less up-to-date
than the first. Much as perfect synch. is desirable,
it is not achievable in practice.
Philip TAYLOR
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