failed "trying to unwind"

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Wed, 15 Jun 2022 21:08:30 +0900 schrieb Norbert Preining:

> Hi Ulrike

>> And after that, the package is removed but a collection depends on it, from
>> which tlmgr deduces that the package was forcibly removed.

I understand the logic. Could there be an general option "never
remove forcibly" or "always reinstall forcibly"? I don't think that
I removed a package in the last years so I could live with it. 

>> I don't see a good option ... maybe tar has a way to ignore errors like
>> that on windows. I need to investigate what can be done here.
> 
> Could you try an experiment?
> 
> - open a hyperref doc pdf file
> - then try to extract the backup container (first unpack, then tar -x)
>   but *ADD* 
> 	--warning=none
>   to the tar invocation.
> Does that give an error or finishes fine?

Hm. I'm not sure how to extract from the backup container so that it
tries to overwrite the doc file from the texmf-dist folder. 

In any case all tar versions I could find in windows and in texlive
don't know a --warning option.





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Ulrike Fischer 
https://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/