[tex-live] Every fourth or five ftp attempt in tlmgr ... fails
Reinhard Kotucha
reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Thu Dec 20 01:19:04 CET 2012
On 2012-12-19 at 21:14:48 +0100, Bernhard Kleine wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 19.12.2012, 01:32 +0100 schrieb Reinhard Kotucha:
> > I still don't know whether your problem is related to perl5/LWP
> > vs. wget or to FTP vs. HTTP.
> >
> > If it's related to FTP (as I deduce from your mails), you could try to
> > set
> >
> > tlmgr option repository http://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet
> >
> > in order to make sure that the HTTP protocol is used. It would be
> > very helpful to know whether this works.
>
> This did indeed run through without any problems (24 packages as of
> 21:14 o'clock CET.
I deduce from that, that HTTP works better for you than FTP. On the
other hand, I'm mirroring an FTP server nearby and it always worked
like a charm. There might be a problem with the setup of your DSL
router.
Anyway, if you encounter problems with your current setup, please let
us know.
Regards,
Reinhard
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