[tex-live] possible tlmgr bug
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Wed May 4 09:05:23 CEST 2011
On 2011-04-29 at 22:34:23 +0200, Artemio Gonzalez Lopez wrote:
> On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
>
> >
> > On Apr 28, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Artemio Gonzalez Lopez wrote:
> >
> >> When I run tlmgr, I get the following error:
> >>
> >> /bin/sh: /Volumes/Macintosh: No such file or directory
> >> /usr/local/texlive/current/bin/x86_64-darwin/tlmgr: could not
> >> run /Volumes/Macintosh
> >> HD/usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/installer/config.guess, cannot
> >> proceed, sorry at /Volumes/Macintosh
> >> HD/usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 234.
> >>
> >> I should say that my texlive installation is NOT on the primary
> >> partition (on which I am testing Mac OS X 10.7's developer
> >> preview), but on a second partition, which the Mac references as
> >> /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/. In other words, texlive's installation
> >> directory is
> >>
> >> /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/usr/local/texlive/
> >>
> >> and /usr/local/texlive is just a symbolic link to the former
> >> directory. The problem, I think, is that somewhere in tlmgr the
> >> space in "Macintosh HD" is not handled correctly. Would it be
> >> easy to fix that?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance,
> >>
> >> Artemio
> >>
> >> Artemio Gonzalez Lopez artemiog at me.com
> >
> > Howdy,
> >
> > Can't you use the workaround by simply removing the space from
> > the volume name (i.e., make it /Volumes/MacintoshHD)?
> >
> > Good Luck,
> >
> > Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
>
> Of course I could, and I guess it would solve the problem. But
> perhaps it would be worth it taking a look at the code and seeing
> if this (minor) bug can be fixed in an easy way, just to prevent
> further problems.
Sorry, but I fear that there are some other scripts in TeX Live which
can't deal with spaces in filenames. They can't be fixed easily and
it would make more sense to re-write them in Perl in order to make
them work on Windows too.
Thus, I suppose that for the time being you have to rename the
directory.
Regards,
Reinhard
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