tlmgr deleted texlive-scripts

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Max,

> and line 1207 shows that "texlive-scripts" failed to update at some
> point, so I guess tlmgr decided to uninstall it entirely.

That shouldn't happen. If an update fail, it does try to revert to the
previous installed version from a backup made before update is started.

Of course, if the restore also failed, then all is lost.
I have **no** idea why that completely failed, since the log doesn't
show the errors that probably were shown on the console.

It is also hard to guess **why** the restore failed. It seems that tlmgr
was able to **remove** the old files, but did not manage to install the
new ones.

I am not sure what more could be done here ...

> Also, I discovered that "mktexlsr" takes different arguments on Unix
> than on Windows:

Yes, that is historically, since the perl version on Windows is horribly
slow and we use Akira's binary, but it has different options.

> I know that mktexlsr is implemented completely differently on Windows,
> but it would probably make sense for it to take the similar arguments as
> the Unix version.

Someone would need to look into unifying this, I am sure that Akira does
not mind adjusting the code.

Best regards

Norbert

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