[tex-live] install-tl redownloads everything on each run

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hi Yaroslav,

are you sure that the packages were really downloaded again? My connection
rarely dies, so I have only one experience when the download failed due to
full disk. It seems to me that all packages were verified whether the
already downloaded ones are at the latest version. tlmgr probably does not
know whether you retry immediatelly or a few days after failure.

I have not looked into the source code so I may be wrong.



Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

2017-06-13 13:24 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav Nikitenko <metst13 at gmail.com>:

> Dear Philip, many thanks for the suggestion.
>
> I've added the links and posted it here
> https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/374651/71097
>
> I still think that to check what was downloaded before should be the
> default, and not to redownload every package. At least links to this
> problem (like this one
> https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-mirror.html) should be put to
> documentation of install-tl (or even there could be an option to
> redownload packages or not).
>
> Best regards,
> Yaroslav Nikitenko
>
>
> 2017-06-13 0:23 GMT+03:00, Philip Taylor <P.Taylor at rhul.ac.uk>:
> > Yaroslav -- I don't know whether the TeX Live installer really downloads
> > everything again (I suspect it does not), but to avoid the problem
> > completely you could use "rsynch" for the download phase ("rsync" is most
> > definitely incremental) and then install from the local mirror that
> "rsync"
> > will create.
> >
> > Yaroslav Nikitenko wrote:
> >> I've faced a problem (with download) during install-tl run. I rerun
> >> that. The problem is that it  redownloads everything from the very
> >> beginning (as can be seen through the installation process and through
> >> my network statistics), which is very annoying when run several times
> >> (in fact, it doesn't allow installation because of different
> >> intermediate download errors).
> >
> > --
> > <Signature>
> > Philip Taylor
> >
>
>
> --
> С уважением,
> Ярослав Никитенко
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> +7 916 743 3759
>
>
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