ConTeXt in TeX Live

Wed Jun 11 12:00:01 CEST 2025

> On 11 Jun 2025, at 11:34, Norbert Preining <norbert at preining.info> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 10 Jun 2025, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>> OK, I think I finally figured out what's happening: tlcontrib is now
>> part of mirrors.ctan.org instead of a single static site,
> 
> Bruno, can you try using 
> https://contrib.texlive.info/current
> directly? That might help.
> 
> I don't mind people using the server directly.

Hi Norbert, hi Adam,

That doesn't work either (screenshot below), but it's unrelated to TL year apparently, it seems caused by the quick anime-style anti-chatbot stuff that appears briefly when opening the URL in a web browser, before being presented with a "403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access this resource".

From the TLU Log (it's in the screen, I'm pasting it here as text for convenience):

2025-06-11 09:35:42 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase texliveYear][44373]	Parsing the database from this repository failed with the following error: parsed up to junk line "<!doctype html><html lang="en"><head><title>Making sure you're not a bot!</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/.within.website/x/xess/xess.min.css?cachebuster=1.19.1"><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"><style>"
Did not find any packages in TeX Live Database

2025-06-11 09:35:42 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase texliveYear][44373]	The database can be viewed with a text editor at "/var/folders/1r/dhdtft1s4qgfjwbcpkfhqf5c0000gn/T/D488B522-B1FE-45F8-B09D-E3AF1BBDC375"

2025-06-11 09:35:42 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase packageNamed:][44373]	*** WARNING *** Requested package 00texlive.config from database without a full download

2025-06-11 09:35:42 +0000 Notice -[TLMDatabase texliveYear][44373]	Unable to determine year from 00texlive.config

I think a couple of days ago when I first reported this, I could view <https://contrib.texlive.info/current> in Safari and Firefox; namely, face this anti-chatbot page, do whatever was required (which I don't remember), reach the website  nd inspect texlive.tlpdb there. Now all I get is the anti-chatbot page flash briefly (when I'm lucky) then immediately the "403 Forbidden" message before I can do anything.

In between I switched from macOS 15 Sequoia to macOS 26 Tahoe Beta, but I don't think that's related, as I see the same on my iPhone with iOS 18.

Bruno

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