Misleading error message from tlmgr

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Ralph,

On Thu, 30 Jan 2020, Ralph Martin wrote:
> Now, the (no access...) part of the message  is fine - but the (not signed...) part of the message  is not, and seems to be a faulty deduction arising from the lack of access. (When the network came back on, the tlmgr update went as expected). 

How to distinguish between an unsigned database and one where the
signature cannot be downloaded due to whatever intermittent reasons?

Best

Norbert

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