[OS X TeX] Use TL Utility to update TL 2018 to its frozen version

[Alan Munn]

Thanks Adam, it must have been the server, because trying it now worked
without any problem.

Alan

Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
> This should work fine, and the next version of TLU will include this
> mirror in the historic list. I'd like to see more of the log, but I
> assume that you can't connect because of a firewall issue or because
> the server hit the max number of connections.
>
> https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2019-May/043654.html
>
> On May 9, 2019 at 10:11 AM, Alan Munn <amunn at gmx.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi, I'd like to update my old TL2018 distribution to the last version
>> (at the time of the freeze). I tried changing my distribution back to
>> TL2018 and then setting the repository to
>> ftp://tug.org/historic/systems/texlive/2018/tlnet-final/ but TL Utility
>> didn't like this. It reports:
>>
>> 2019-05-09 16:44:08 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase texliveYear][15587]
>> Failed to use this repository 48.4 seconds ago. Using that result.
>>
>> 2019-05-09 16:44:08 +0000 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController
>> _refreshUpdatedPackageListFromLocation:][15587] Not updating package
>> list, since the repository database version could not be determined
>>
>> Is there a way to do what I want (either with TL Utility or tlmgr
>> directly)?
>>
>> Alan
>>
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