[tex-live] something wrong at texlive?

Philip TAYLOR (Ret'd) P.Taylor at Rhul.Ac.Uk
Mon Feb 16 16:46:40 CET 2009



Bernhard Kleine wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I did some update today:
 > some time later I repeated (just for curiosity) the update:
 >
 > amd2000bk:/home/bernhard# tlmgr update --all
 > tlmgr: installation location
 > http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
 > context-letter: local revision (12168) is newer than revision in
 > http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 (12145), not updating.
 > imtekda: local revision (12169) is newer than revision in
 > http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 (8643), not updating.
 > tablor: local revision (12166) is newer than revision in
 > http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 (12009), not updating.
 > amd2000bk:/home/bernhard#
 >
 > A little strange, isn't it?

As Mirror.Ctan.Org does not have a fixed IP address,
it is by no means unlikely that the site that you
visited on your second attempt was less up-to-date
than the first.  Much as perfect synch. is desirable,
it is not achievable in practice.

Philip TAYLOR


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