Concerning problems with updates from mirror.ctan

Bernhard Kleine bernhard.kleine at gmx.net
Thu Apr 22 13:33:30 CEST 2021


Just changed the name of the repository form http://mirror.ctan.org...
to https://....  and updated. Everything went smoothly. win32 on
Windows10-64

Bernhard

Am 21.04.2021 um 23:30 schrieb Karl Berry:
>     Well, the mirror list is only updated once a week (from CTAN to TeX 
Live)
>
> Actually that mirror list update happened every other day. I just
> changed that to daily (tl-update-auto) until things settle down.
>
> I may as well mention: besides incorporating any changes to the list on
> the CTAN side, our import also filters out mirrors that are more than 36
> hours stale, since it's not practical or desirable for CTAN to
> aggressive remove (and then restore ...) mirrors from the list just
> because there's a problem for a few days. But there's no use in trying
> to use them for TL downloads. --best, karl.

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