Cannot load TeX Live database from file:// location

[Vincenzo Mantova]

Hi,

I may have hit a bug in tlmgr. As it is, when I try reading a remote
repository in a file:// url, or just a local folder really, for instance

  tlmgr --repository file://${repo} dump-tlpdb --remote

I get `Cannot load TeX Live database`.

>From what I can tell, download_file in TLUtils.pm is ignoring the file name
in the $dest argument, and that breaks file:// urls, at least in the way I
am using them. Indeed, it all works as I'd expect if I replace

  copy ($filetoopen, $par)

with

  copy ("-f", $filetoopen, $dest)

at
https://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/Master/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm?revision=59044&view=markup#l2753

Does that make sense?

Best,
Vincenzo Mantova
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