[OS X TeX] TeX Live Utility: strange error message

[Franck Pastor]

Le 29 déc. 09 à 18:29, Maxwell, Adam R a écrit :

> On 12/28/09 06:45, "Adam R. Maxwell" <amaxwell at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> On Dec 28, 2009, at 6:09 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>>
>>> On Dec 28, 2009, at 2:31 AM, Franck Pastor wrote:
>>>
>>>> Each time I make use of TeX Live Utility, it shows this error  
>>>> message at the
>>>> end of the process (even when it seems to work well):
>>>>
>>>> 2009-12-28 09:27:06 +0100 Notice -[TLMOperation main][189]  
>>>> Standard error
>>>> from `/usr/texbin/tlmgr --machine-readable --repository
>>>> http://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet update  
>>>> --list`
>>>> tlmgr: package repository
>>>> http://archive.cs.uu.nl/mirror/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet
>>>>
> [...]
>>> ``Standard error'' is just an output stream. This seems to just be  
>>> a message
>>> about what repostiroy is being used by tlmgr and is probably  
>>> displayed only
>>> when the -machine-readable option (used by TLU) is used. Don't  
>>> think there is
>>> anything to worry about.
>>
>> Yes, this is correct.  Informational and error messages are printed  
>> to stderr,
>> and there's no way to discriminate between them (exit status isn't  
>> always
>> useful) so I just log it.
>
> The next version of TLU will log this instead, which hopefully will  
> be less
> confusing:
>
> Successfully executed `/usr/texbin/tlmgr --machine-readable -- 
> repository
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet update --list`
> tlmgr: package repository http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet
> tlmgr: no updates available
>

Thanks to you and Herb Schulz for your explanations!

Franck Pastor