[tex-live] Problem with latest tlmgr?

[Philipp Stephani]

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> Von: Victor Ivrii <vivrii at gmail.com>
> An: Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>
> CC: TeX Live <tex-live at tug.org>
> Gesendet: Montag, den 27. September 2010, 14:53:52 Uhr
> Betreff: Re: [tex-live] Problem with latest tlmgr?
> 
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com>  
>wrote:
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Using the TeX Live Utility (TLU) on Mac  with TL2010 and a fixed repository 
>(utah). Today there was a ``critical'' update  to tlmgr and there were 9 other 
>updates. After the update to tlmgr it listed no  available updates manually 
>while running
> >
> > sudo tlmgr update  --all
> >
> > and 9 packages were installed. So far it looks like it's a  TLU problem but 
>wait... TLU reports
> >
> > 2010-09-27 07:41:19 -0500  Notice -[TLMOperation main][8079]     Successfully 
>executed `/usr/texbin/tlmgr  --machine-readable --repository 
>http://ctan.math.utah.edu/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet update  --list`
> > 2010-09-27 07:41:19 -0500 Notice -[TLMOperation main][8079]      tlmgr 
>update: please specify a list of packages, --all or --self.
> >  2010-09-27 07:41:19 -0500 Notice -[TLMListUpdatesOperation packages][8079]   
>    No data read from standard output stream.
> >
> > So it's basically  running tlmgr with `update --list'  and tlmgr doesn't seem 
>to understand it. I  can confirm that running
> >
> > tlmgr update --list
> >
> >  seems to be broken.
> >
> > Good Luck,
> >
> > Herb  Schulz
> > (herbs at wideopenwest dot  com)
> >
> >
> Yes
> 
> %tlmgr update --list
> tlmgr update: please  specify a list of packages, --all or --self.

Confirmed on Linux x86-64