Exit Code on tlmgr Update Missing
Norbert Preining
norbert at preining.info
Sat Oct 24 14:19:28 CEST 2020
Hi Naveen,
sorry for the late reply ..
On Thu, 01 Oct 2020, Naveen M K wrote:
> ===============================================================================
> tlmgr itself needs to be updated.
> Please do this via either
> tlmgr update --self
> or by getting the latest updater for Unix-ish systems:
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
> and/or Windows systems:
> http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.exe
> Then continue with other updates as usual.
> ===============================================================================
>
> Now the problem is it should exit with status code 1, if there requires an update. That's it.
That was with
tlmgr update --list
is this correct? Yes, there we don't error out, because, well, it just
lists what should be done...
OTOH,
tlmgr update --all
**should** return error code when critical updates are available,
--force is NOT given.
Would you suggest something different?
Best
Norbert
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