Misleading error message from tlmgr

[Ralph Martin]

Thanks for the full and informative response, Norbert. I now understand the
problem. A final suggestion, before I drop the topic: could you just change
the existing message to be more accurate, to say that either the file was
missing or fetching it failed?

Thanks again for your work. Much appreciated.

Ralph



On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, 23:57 Norbert Preining, <preining at logic.at> wrote:

> Hi Ralph,
>
> > Doesn't the networking stack give different responses for "connection
> cannot be made / timed out / dropped / lost" and (signature) "file not
> found"?
> > If so, the former could be reported as "networking error" rather than
> "not signed".
>
> Well, if we would have *one* networking stack, say we could guarantee to
> use LWP on all platforms, *and* we remove the support for selecting
> downloaders (lwp, curl, wget) (which would hurt probably some Mac
> users), we could pass through the return codes from lwp all the way
> through the stack (3-5 calls). Ah, and I forget, we would also need to
> drop support for retrying downloads with wget/curl in case LWP failed,
> or some other error occurred.
>
> If I want to duplicate something similar for cmd line wget and curl
> calls, it is getting difficult.
>
> Yes, it is possible, I agree, but I am not convinced that it is worth
> the pain for a slightly more informative error message ...
>
> Best
>
> Norbert
>
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