[tex-live] Choosing a mirror

[Ken Brown]

On 11/23/2009 2:41 PM, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> 
> 
> Ken Brown wrote:
> 
>> One strategy is to run 'tlmgr update --list' until it chooses a mirror
>> that you like. Then rerun 'tlmgr update ...', explicitly specifying the
>> good mirror on the command line. Choosing a mirror and sticking to it
>> forever is not likely to be reliable.
> 
> When you say "run", Ken, should I infer "re-run", since 'tlmgr update 
> --list' seems to use just one mirror, selected at the beginning.  But
> even if I re-run it, it chooses the same mirror :

No, it often chooses a different mirror on the next run.  That was 
precisely the problem the OP had.

Ken