tlmgr dump-tlpdb question

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Adam,

> In the past, I think tlmgr's dump-tlpdb action sent the name of the
> mirror to stdout as the first line, and I was using this in TeX Live

Hmm, that hasn't changed afair.

> tlmgr --repository http://ctan.math.utah.edu/ctan/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet --machine-readable dump-tlpdb --remote > /tmp/utah.tlpdb


I git blamed tlmgr.pl, and at least for 3 years there haven't been any
changes.

> location-url <tab character> http://....

This still come out, but only when doing --local, not for --remote

> is now written to stderr, but I prefer not to parse tlmgr's stderr for
> pretty obvious reasons :-).

The url is also now written in the above way to stderr when called with
--remote.


Hope that helps and clarifies the case a bit. Again, as far as I
remember there haven't been any changes in this area for quite some
time.

Best

Norbert

--
PREINING Norbert                              https://www.preining.info
Accelia Inc. + IFMGA ProGuide + TU Wien + JAIST + TeX Live + Debian Dev
GPG: 0x860CDC13   fp: F7D8 A928 26E3 16A1 9FA0 ACF0 6CAC A448 860C DC13