[tex-live] tlmgr strange behavior

[Victor Ivrii]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:22 AM, Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com> wrote:
> First:
>
> %tlmgr update --all --dry-run
>
> Installing achemso
> Installing attachfile
> Installing bbding
> Installing bin-pdftools
> Installing bin-web
> Installing bin-web.universal-darwin
> Installing boxhandler
> Installing caption
> Installing catechis
> Installing chemstyle
> Installing collection-humanities
> Installing collection-latexextra
> Installing collection-latexrecommended
> Installing collection-metapost
> Installing collection-pstricks
> Installing collection-xetex
> Installing curves
> Installing fancytooltips
> Installing glossaries
> Installing hypdvips
> Installing memoir
> Installing mmap
> Installing probsoln
> Installing psgo
> Installing pst-barcode
> Installing pst-diffraction
> Installing pst-pad
> Installing pstricks-add
> Installing rsc
> Installing umtypewriter
>
> This is strange: it should remove some packages first
>
> %sudo tlmgr update --all
> <nothing>
> and packages are not updated
>
> %sudo tlmgr update attachfile
> <nothing>
> and package is  not updated
>
> %tlmgr update --list
> <nothing>
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> ========================
> Victor Ivrii, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
> http://www.math.toronto.edu/ivrii
>

Couple of hours later: partial success. Probably different times tlmgr
connected to different mirrors some of them had updated versions, some
have not

collection-latexextra: revision in
http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 is less then local
revision, not updating!

Means that this was updated on the first run, but then connection went
to another mirror with older version.

Understandable, but needs to be in FAQ

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Victor Ivrii, Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Toronto
http://www.math.toronto.edu/ivrii