Bad data in tlnet mirror

[Fransson Mattias]

I resorted to installing from the DVD instead, that worked as intended.

I re-downloaded install-tl (install-tl-unx.tar.gz) from my mirror after every sync, so it should match the versions of the packages it tried to install.

The way I did my mirror seem to have dereferenced all links, there are only "real" files in my copy. No links. So I'm not really sure the package containers description you linked explain the checksum mismatch.



-----Original Message-----
From: Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> 
Sent: den 29 november 2019 00:09
To: Fransson Mattias <mattias.fransson at saabgroup.com>
Cc: tex-live at tug.org
Subject: Re: Bad data in tlnet mirror

    http://ftp.acc.umu.se/mirror/CTAN/ 
    http://vesta.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/ftp/pub/mirror/ctan

Both those mirrors look up to date to me.

    Installing [0063/3885, time/total: 00:16/29:44]: afm2pl [50k]
    TLUtils::check_file: checksums differ for /tmp/5oI2BZ9gkd/JXQ9WDg8JE/afm2pl.tar.xz:

It seems strange to me that the error didn't happen until package #63, and with afm2pl (which has not been updated), but anyway, I surmise this is somehow related to the "versioned containers". I described it here
  http://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html#verpkg
but that's about updating an existing installation, not creating a new one.

    to install texlive.

So you're doing an initial installation from your mirror? Are you using the install-tl that is part of the mirror, or an older version from somewhere else, perchance? The line numbers don't seem quite current.

FWIW, I just tried an installation using the install-tl in tlnet now, and it went through ok. --best, karl.