lots of packages fail to download from ctan. whats up?

[circumspect.readabilities830 at aceecat.org]

On Sun, Nov 03, 2024 at 09:37:01AM GMT, circumspect.readabilities830 at aceecat.org wrote:

> > > Earlier today I updated another system which uses mirrors (unlike
> > > this one) and it went perfectly.

> > Yes, you are NOT SUPPOSED to use the main CTAN repo and MUST use the
> > mirror system. The main hosts will cut you off after a certain
> > amount of data transfered.

> > Please use the mirror.ctan.org system.

> I see, thanks for the explanation. But I have done this quite a few
> times before and I never saw this problem. Just out of curiosity -- is
> this a relatively new enforecement measure?

Sorry to be a pain -- multiple problems persist.

1. When I just do

tlmgr option repository ctan

and then proceed, I get ... crickets. Have to hit Control-C. So I go
to select an explicit mirror host, and ...

2. The URL given by tlmrg --help as pointing to the list of mirrors,

https://ctan.org/mirrors/mirmon

doesn't seem to exist.

3. Cutting the "mirmon" part works and shows me a list, but a
prominent item on the list is "ctan.net". I bet that is how I
originally ended up using it.

So, I think some gentle updating of the mirror system might
be in order.

-- 
Ian