Concerning problems with updates from mirror.ctan

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Markus,

thanks for the tests, that is a real bummer...

I need to check where and what is going wrong.

Thanks

On Wed, 21 Apr 2021, Markus Kohm wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 21. April 2021, 00:23:49 CEST schrieb Norbert Preining:
> > for those having problems updating from CTAN mirror.ctan.org, please
> > change your repository to use
> >         https://
> > instead. That should fix the problem.
> >         tlmgr option repository
> > https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
> 
> Unfortunately this does not help. After today's infra update with the generic 
> address I get:
> 
> | /usr/local/texlive/current/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr: signature verification 
> error of
> | /usr/local/texlive/2021/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.main.
> 2fdb20874d4fe1a3267a99dbbf353926 from
> | https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb: 
> cryptographic signature verification of 
> |   /tmp/u23nQVXiXG/m4lwylA0kJ
> | against
> |   https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/
> texlive.tlpdb.sha512.asc 
> | failed. Output was:
> | gpg: Signatur vom Tue 20 Apr 2021 01:53:17 CEST
> | gpg:                mittels RSA-Schlüssel 4CE1877E19438C70
> | gpg: FALSCHE Signatur von "TeX Live Distribution <tex-live at tug.org>" 
> [ultimativ]
> |
> | Please try from a different mirror and/or wait a few minutes
> | and try again; usually this is because of transient updates.
> 
> and every https mirror (I've tested several German mirrors, e.g. uni-erlangen, 
> oth-fulda, gwdg, oth-regensburg, fau) fails with:
> 
> | /usr/local/texlive/current/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr: cannot download: download 
> did not succeed: Germany       https://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/ctan/tlpkg/
> texlive.tlpdb.sha512
> 
> The only German mirrors that work are the ftp access to mirror ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet (which seems to be outdated) and the 
> http access to 
> http://mirror.physik-pool.tu-berlin.de/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
> 
> So either all the mirrors I've tested are broken (but e.g. usually gwdg and 
> uni-erlangen are very reliable) or the https access does not work.
> 
> Markus


Norbert

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