tlmgr selfupdating - suggestion for improvement

Ralph Martin ralphrmartin at gmail.com
Wed Nov 27 14:20:33 CET 2019


Could I make a suggestion?

If you do (say)
   tlmgr update --all
and it replies 
   tlmgr itself needs to be updated.
   Please do this via either
     tlmgr update --self
   etc

this could be more directly dealt with. As tlmgr will do nothing useful until it is updated, it would reduce interaction for the end user if instead, tlmgr 

- said that it needed self updating
- proceeded to do that selfupdate
- then carried out the user's original request

If the self-update failed it could still give some message about where to get the latest updater and what to do.

Or am I missing something?

Thanks.

Ralph Martin




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