[tex-live] tlmgr testing, pretty please

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That seems to have taken care of it - thanks.

- cfr


On Fri 12th Sep, 2008 at 20:19, Norbert Preining seems to have written:

> On Fr, 12 Sep 2008, Dr. Clea F. Rees wrote:
>> I thought the error I was seeing with the trial version of tlmgr was
>> the same error but now I'm not sure. So just in case:
>
> No, you found a different error.
>
>> i.e. tlmgr option location
>> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
>>
>> Result:
>>
>> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
>> /usr/texbin/tlmgr line 842, <TMP> line 90451.
>
> Fixed in tlmgr.pl revision 10574. Please get it, replace your current
> copy, and again call
> 	tlmgr option location http://....
>
> Thanks.
>
>> This seemed so similar to the bug people were seeing when checking the
>> version I thought it was probably the same. But this *does* seem like a
>> real bug...?
>
> Yes, real bug. Sorry, I introduced it when I tried to deal with Phil's
> bug report on c:/foo/bar vs c:\foo\bar. Again, abs_path("http://...")
> returns "". Bummer.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Norbert
>
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