[tex-live] oberdiek package update failure

Adam Mercer ramercer at gmail.com
Tue May 18 14:33:02 CEST 2010


On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 23:47, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> On Mo, 17 Mai 2010, Adam Mercer wrote:
>> Installation of new version of oberdiek did fail, trying to unwind.
>> Restoring old package state succeeded.
> ....
>> skipping forcibly removed package oberdiek
>
> That is something that makes me nervous. Unwinding and reinstalling
> should not *remove* oberdiek. Something really bad happened there.
>
> For now I would remove all the files in .../2009/temp and then
>        tlmgr install oberdiek

Whenever tlmgr tried to pull updates from
http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet I got
the same problem, with a different mirror oberdiek installed without
issue.

Cheers

Adam



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