tar failure

[Adam R. Maxwell]

I have a report from a user that tar is failing

https://github.com/amaxwell/tlutility/issues/121

I've just copied the report here, but the full output is available. Tlmgr is trying to pass too many arguments to tar:

$ sudo /usr/local/texlive/2021/bin/universal-darwin/tlmgr --repository https://mirror.koddos.net/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet --machine-readable --persistent-downloads update --all
Password:
start load https://mirror.koddos.net/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
finish load https://mirror.koddos.net/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
location-url https://mirror.koddos.net/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
total-bytes 494539381
end-of-header
Can't exec "tar": Argument list too long at /usr/local/texlive/2021/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 686.
/usr/local/texlive/2021/bin/universal-darwin/tlmgr: system(tar -cf /usr/local/texlive/2021/tlpkg/backups/noto.r54512.tar texmf-dist/doc/fonts/noto texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/noto/nto_2banio.enc

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texmf-dist/fonts/vf/google/noto/NotoSerif-ThinItalic-tosf-t1.vf texmf-dist/fonts/vf/google/noto/NotoSerif-ThinItalic-tosf-ts1.vf texmf-dist/tex/latex/noto tlpkg/tlpobj/noto.tlpobj) failed in /usr/local/texlive/2021, status -1 at /usr/local/texlive/2021/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 690.