[tex-live] tlmgr: Is it possible to see the version number of a ctan package?

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 10:39:34PM +0000, Robin Fairbairns wrote:

> hyperref is updated with bewildering frequency, and i obviously imagined
> i had already done that update.  i catalogued 6.79h on 26th; version
> 6.79k appeared in cambridge on the 27th (via mirror overnight).  who
> knows what happened to 6.79(i|j)?

Updates happened at the same day.

> i have now changed the catalogue repository.  as i understand it, this

Is there a need to do the update of the version number *manually*?

> means that the information will appear in texlive.tlpdb tonight, so that
> (unless there's another new hyperref

Not unlikely.

> to subvert my attempts at keeping
> up), things will be back in sync.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko <oberdiek at uni-freiburg.de>