tlmgr selfupdating - suggestion for improvement

[Rick Graham]

It's very lazy, but when I want to update I just use this command.  It
should update everything to the latest version available.

tlmgr update --self --all --reinstall-forcibly-removed


On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 2:21 PM Ralph Martin <ralphrmartin at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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