[tex-live] problems with tl2016 pretest

[Zdenek Wagner]

2016-05-13 15:57 GMT+02:00 Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info>:

> Hi Jim,
>
> > think that it just may be an issue of the design of tl-install, in
> > that it doesn't overlap "download the next file" with "unpack this
> > file".
>
> What do you mean with "overlap"?
>
> The installer does the following:
> for each package to be installed:
>   download the file
>   check size and checksum
>   unpack into destination
> done
>
> Where the 'download the file' has several fall back:
> - first try LWP, that is persistent connections
> - if that fails, try wget (a few times)
> - if that fails, too, give up
>
> So I dont know what you mean with overlap.
>
> > > TLDownload::get_file: response error: 501 Protocol scheme 'ftp' is not
> supported (for
> ftp://ftp.math.utah.edu/pub/texlive/tlpretest/archive/12many.tar.xz)
> > > TLDownload::get_file: response error: 501 Attempt to reload
> LWP/Protocol/ftp.pm aborted.
> >
> > > It looks like your Perl installation is messed up somehow.
> > Huh.  I try not to mess with it (see above).  However, I guess it is
> > good to know that it is then likely just me with that problem.
>
> I have to agree with Karl here. Unless the math.utah mirror really
> rejects ftp (which Nelson said it doesn't), all this looks really
>

I tried ftp from math.utah and it worked


> strange and - not by me - to me. I want to say, I am simply using the
> perl modules LWP, which *should* (and in 99.99999%) work correctly,
> as far as I know. The warning message above are from LWP itself and
> really look strange.
>
> Some guess work from my side:
> Do you have a firewall (local or local network) that blocks ftp or
> active ftp?
> Do you need proxies for ftp?
>
> All these things could influence the outcome ... hard to analyze from
> here without physical access to the network.
>
> All the best
>
> Norbert
>



Zdeněk Wagner
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