[tex-live] tlmgr asked me to report this

[Vedran Miletić]

2010/11/24 Lars Madsen <daleif at imf.au.dk>

> Norbert Preining wrote:
>
>> On Mi, 24 Nov 2010, Dan Luecking wrote:
>>
>>>  tlmgr: inconsistency on the server:
>>>  tlmgr: tlp for package asciichart cannot be found, please report.
>>>
>>
>> Hmm, strange, I didn't see this message ..., in my case asciichart was
>> removed and ascii-chart installed, without any warning.
>>
>> Anyway... thanks for reporting.. although it puzzles me a bit. In the
>> code of tlmgr that leads up to the above error message there I have
>> written:
>>      # we checked already that this package is present!
>>      # but our checks seem to be wrong, no idea why
>>      # ahhh, it seems that it can happen due to a stupid incident, a bug
>>      # on the server:
>>      # - remove a package from a collection
>>      # - at the same time increase its version number
>>      # then what happens is:
>>      # - first the package is removed (auto-remove!)
>>      # - then it is tried to be updated here, which is not working!
>>      # report that and ask for report
>> (I like to write my comments in a bit peculiar way)
>>
>> But it does *NOT* explain why asciichart was tried to be updated...
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Norbert
>>
>
> we got it in a clean install yesterday as well
>
> --
>
> /daleif
>

I had it as well:

tlmgr: package repository
http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/publishing/tex/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
tlmgr: saving backups to /usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/backups
[1/39] auto-remove: acromake
[2/39] auto-remove: armenian
[3/39] auto-remove: mapcodes
[4/39] auto-remove: siggraph
[5/39] auto-remove: mhs
[6/39] auto-remove: asciichart
[7/39, ??:??/??:??] update: adobemapping [1831k] (20273 -> 20535) ... done
[8/39, 00:27/04:17] update: advdate [146k] (17048 -> 20538) ... done
tlmgr: inconsistency on the server:
tlmgr: tlp for package asciichart cannot be found, please report.

Regards,

Vedran Miletić
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