trying tlcritical (verification error cleanup)

[Bruno Voisin]

Installing tlmgr from tlcritical, then when trying to get the list of available updates from a tl repo here's the kind of output that's obtained (with TeX Live Utility, the Mac GUI to tlmgr):

Successfully executed `/Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr --machine-readable --repository https://mirrors.chevalier.io/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/ update --list --all`

start load https://mirrors.chevalier.io/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/
Use of uninitialized value $status in numeric eq (==) at /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr line 7025.
Use of uninitialized value $status in numeric eq (==) at /Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr line 7041.
finish load https://mirrors.chevalier.io/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/

and the list of available updates is a long list of "local version is newer".

Just before using tlcritical, there was instead the usual list of a couple of available updates.

Given the line number references above, the problem seems to be with verify_checksum_and_check_return from TLCrypto.pm (revisions 53842 of tlmgr.pl and 53820 of TLCrypto.pm). That's about as far as I could go.

Attached is a screenshot of what TeX Live Utility returns. It doesn't provide more info than the above, except perhaps the revision numbers which tlmgr thinks are current on the tl repo. For example, tlmgr thinks that the current revision of amsmath at https://mirrors.chevalier.io/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet is 52854: it's not, I checked manually (downloading texlive.tlpdb and inspecting it in a text editor), the current revision is indeed 53640.

Bruno Voisin

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