[tex-live] tlmgr on Win10 fails

[Herbert Voss]

Am 17.11.18 um 04:38 schrieb Norbert Preining:

> Do you have a program
> 	xz
> installed in your Windows somewhere.

I'll forward it to our system administrator, because I am only
on Friday in the computer lab. I'll report what happens.

thanks
Herbert



> 
> This is also shown here:
>> D:TLUtils::system_pipe: calling xz -dcf <
>> "C:\Users\SC24CE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2r_68Nzu2N\HZfB9CLG_V" >
>> "C:\Users\SC24CE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2r_68Nzu2N\k3wU8_yWPH"
>> xz: (stdin): Compressed data is corrupt
>> D:TLUtils::system_pipe: system exit code = 1
>> D:xz C:\Users\SC24CE~1\AppData\Local\Temp\2r_68Nzu2N\HZfB9CLG_V failed,
>> trying plain file
> 
> So it seems that you have an outdated xz.exe somewhere, please check
> that.
> 
> On Fri, 16 Nov 2018, Karl Berry wrote:
>> Norbert, I'm not sure about your comment about other tars not
>> supporting these options. Any tar must support "xf", or it is not tar at
> 
> The unpacking is not the problem, the making of the backup archives
> before an update.
> 
> Anyway, the problem is with xz, I am highly confident.
> 
> Best
> 
> Norbert
> 
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