[tex-live] pretest 2018 imminent

Norbert Preining preining at logic.at
Mon Mar 12 11:00:51 CET 2018


Hi Royal Head Undertaker of Ladisburough

(Or whatever RHUoL might mean)

>Why would the TeX Live manager seek to update the pretest from Oxdord
>rather than from the location (S:\TeX\Live\2018\tlpretest) from which
>it was installed ?

Did you uncheck the option
  After installation set repository to CTAN mirror
during installation?

If not, this is the expected thing.

Norbert


On March 12, 2018 6:53:37 PM GMT+09:00, "Philip Taylor (RHUoL)" <P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk> wrote:
>TeX Live 2018 (pre-test) was downloaded using Rsynch from Slovenia to
>S:\TeX\Live\2018\tlpretest
>
>TeX Live 2018 (pre-test) was installed to S:\TeX\Live\2018
>
>A day or two later, a further Rsynch was performed, after which
>TLmgr-GUI was launched from S:\TeX\Live\2018\Bin\Win32
>
>The TeX Live manager was instructed to perform an "Update all
>installed", at which point it reported (ephemerally)
>
>"Executing action update. The TeX Live versions supported by the
>repository http://mirror.ox.ac.uk/sites/ctan.org/systems/tlnet
>(2016--2017) does not include the version of the local installation
>(2018)"
>
>Why would the TeX Live manager seek to update the pretest from Oxdord
>rather than from the location (S:\TeX\Live\2018\tlpretest) from which
>it was installed ?
>
>Philip Taylor


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