tar argument list too long

Karl Berry karl at freefriends.org
Mon Dec 23 22:05:11 CET 2019


    https://github.com/amaxwell/tlutility/issues/79

Norbert and I have been corresponding with the first person to report
the problem, Michiel Kreutzer, although lately off-list.
(My first reply: https://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2019-December/044583.html)

Anyway, our best guess is that there are files left over in the noto
font directories from a previous update which are preventing the
"collapsing" of tons of files into a single directory on the tar
cmdline. (This is not entirely surprising given the number of files in
the noto package. I wish the .enc names were not constantly
churned. Anyway.)

Norbert had an idea for a manual workaround. First do:
   tlmgr remove --force noto

then check the directories under discussion:
   texmf-dist/doc/fonts/noto
   texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/noto
   texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/noto
   texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/google/noto
   texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/google/noto
   texmf-dist/fonts/type1/google/noto
   texmf-dist/fonts/vf/google/noto
   texmf-dist/tex/latex/noto

Presuming there are stray files remaining in any of them, rm -rf the
dirs (by hand), and then do:
   tlmgr install noto

If in fact the tlmgr remove cleans out all those directories completely,
then something else is going wrong and we'll have to debug further.
--hope it flies, karl.


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