tlmgr deleted texlive-scripts

[Karl Berry]

Hi Pablo,

    Subject: Re: tlmgr deleted texlive-scripts

Thanks for the detailed report. 

If you, or anyone, is able to check, it would be useful to know if the
failure happens on Unix also. Seems like it should.

    Now the plan is to upgrade to the current version and have the download
    fail to test what happens to the directories and files...so here we go:

How did you make the download fail?


I don't really know what happened, but reading Norbert's previous reply:

    np> If autobackup is done, that backup is used to restore.
    If autobackup is disabled, a temporary backup is made, and after
    successful installation discarded.

You manually deleted the backup file, but (I think) did not disable the
autobackup option. So I wonder if tlmgr looked for the backup that
should have been there, didn't find, and gave up. I.e., it checks for
the option being enabled/disabled, not the presence/absence of a backup
file.

I hope Norbert or I will look into it further when one of us has a chance.

    I think `texlive-scripts` should
    be treated a little differently...without it, nothing works
    
Well, it's still possible to run tlmgr without it. And do typesetting,
if necessary .fmt and other files are present. That's why we did not
make it a "critical" package like texlive.infra.

Thanks again,
Karl