[tex-live] tlmgr: Is it possible to see the version number of a ctan package?

Leo sdl.web at gmail.com
Mon Nov 30 00:38:14 CET 2009


On 2009-11-29 22:52 +0000, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard wrote:
> Leo a écrit :
>> But if you open hyperref.sty you will see '6.79k' is installed. Any idea
>> whether this is a bug? Thanks.
>> 
> Depends on your definition of bug... I would say this is a known
> limitation: our update process cannot guarantee that the catalogue
> information included in the TeX Live database is always in sync with the
> actual files in the package.
>
> We are well aware of it, but AFAICS there is no easy way to get it right
> 100% of the time. OTOH, the information should be exact most of the
> time. (Hyperref is changing quite fast, so it's not very surprising that
>   the info for the particular package is out of sync.)
>
> Manuel.
>
> PS: perhaps that was one good reason for not showing this information...

Thank you for the clarification. It is still good to show the version,
in my view.

Leo



More information about the tex-live mailing list