pretesting: tlmgr

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at bitmuis.nl
Thu Apr 4 21:46:01 CEST 2019


On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 07:29:20PM +0200, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> Am 04.04.2019 um 10:08 schrieb Siep Kroonenberg:
> > On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 09:49:28AM +0200, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The version from yesterday updated tlmgr from the shell, but only
> >> incompletely.
> >>
> >> While tlmgr shows
> >>
> >> upon restarting the tlmgr it has obviously not being updated.
> >>
> >> Windows7-64
> > Yes, it can fail, presumably because of windows file locking. You
> > should have seen a dialog box telling you beforehand how to do it
> > from the command-line in case of failure.
> 
> Hi, Siep,
> 
> yes I did see the box, however, the box says that tlmgr hat been updated
> and it is restarting. That is my critique. It claims something which is
> obviously not the case. While it does not restart tlmgr, tlmgr can be
> restarted, but without the update. Very confusing.

There should be two boxes: first a dialog box which lets you cancel
the update, then a log window with output from tlmgr.

Apparently, tlmgr is cheering prematurely. Norbert?

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg


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