[tex-live] tlmgr problem on mac

Sun Nov 1 19:36:27 CET 2009

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 13:20, Daniel Stegmueller
<d.stegmueller at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see the same behavior on OS X 10.5.8.

Same behaviour on 10.6.1 also:

[ram at cizin ~]$ sudo tlmgr --repository
http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/ update --self
tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/
[1/2, ??:??/??:??] update: texlive.infra [266k] (15856 -> 15914) ... done
[2/2, 00:05/00:11] update: texlive.infra.universal-darwin [264k]
(15766 -> 15914) ... done
tlmgr: package log updated at /usr/local/texlive/2009/texmf-var/web2c/tlmgr.log
running mktexlsr ...
done running mktexlsr.
[ram at cizin ~]$ sudo tlmgr --repository
http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/ update --list
tlmgr: package repository http://ftp.ctex.org/mirrors/texlive/tlnet/
/usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/installer/xz/xzdec.universal-darwin:
(stdin): File format not recognized
First directive needs to be 'name', not <html> at
/usr/local/texlive/2009/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 123, <RETFH> line
1.
[ram at cizin ~]$

Cheers

Adam