[tex-live] Cannot contact mirror.ctan.org

[Robert Alessi]

On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 12:41:55PM +0100, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> On 23 January 2011 Denis Bitouzé wrote:
> 
>  > Le samedi 22/01/11 à 21h12,
>  > Robert Alessi <alessi at robertalessi.net> a écrit :
>  > 
>  > > Yes. Actually you may either type:
>  > > 
>  > > --> LANG=C tlmgr update --all
>  > > 
>  > > on a single line, or
>  > > 
>  > > --> LANG=C
>  > > 
>  > > then
>  > > 
>  > > --> tlmgr update --all
>  > 
>  > OK.
>  >  
>  > > on two separate lines, at your convenience. Does this workaround work
>  > > on your system? I'm pretty sure it does.
>  > 
>  > Unfortunately, that's not the case:
>  > 
>  > LANG=C tlmgr --repository=http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet
>  > update --all
> 
> Does LC_ALL=C instead of LANG=C work?
> 
> LANG only sets locale variables which aren't set already, LC_ALL
> overwrites them all.  Suppose you have LC_MESSAGES=fr_FR.UTF-8 ,
> this would be overwritten by LC_ALL but not by LANG.

That's perfectly right; on my system locale variables are set with
LC_ALL. Sorry for my mistake.

Robert

> 
> Regards,
>   Reinhard
> 
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Robert Alessi
Université de Poitiers
Faculté des Lettres et Langues, Département d'Études grecques
CNRS UMR 8167 Orient et Méditerranée - Université de Paris IV Sorbonne
Laboratoire "Médecine grecque": édition et traduction des médecins antiques