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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">OK, I think I can attempt an answer to
Norbert ..</div>
<br>
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cite="mid:855c1a3d-f44a-631e-06a1-eb991776cc09@Hellenic-Institute.Uk">
<pre>><i> C:\Windows\system32>tlmgr option repository <a href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://texlive.info/tlpretest/</a>
</i>><i> tlmgr.pl: setting default package repository to <a href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://texlive.info/tlpretest/</a>
</i>><i> tlmgr.pl: updating C:/TeX/Live/2020/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
</i>><i>
</i>><i> C:\Windows\system32>tlmgr repository
</i>><i> List of repositories (with tags if set):
</i>><i> <a href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://texlive.info/tlpretest/</a> (main)
</i>><i>
</i>><i> C:\Windows\system32>tlmgr update --list
</i>
Not reproducible:</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
Well, yes, I would have expected that. If it were reproducible
everywhere (or even just on a typical installation), I would not
have been the first to report it !<br>
<br>
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cite="mid:855c1a3d-f44a-631e-06a1-eb991776cc09@Hellenic-Institute.Uk">
<pre><blockquote type="cite"><pre>
><i> SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc
</i>><i> syswgetrc = C:\Program files (x86)\GnuWin32/etc/wgetrc
</i>><i> SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc
</i>><i> syswgetrc = C:\Program files (x86)\GnuWin32/etc/wgetrc</i></pre>
</blockquote><i>
</i>
Could it be that your wget and wgetrc are simply hosed?</pre>
</blockquote>
<br>
No, as I wrote earlier, I used "wget" on a daily basis and in fact
used it to fetch the last 10% of the TeX Colleection ISO. My
"wgetrc" has only one non-commented line :<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">waitretry = 10 </blockquote>
<br>
But :<br>
<br>
<pre><pre>><i> SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc
doesn't exist.
</i></pre></pre>
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cite="mid:855c1a3d-f44a-631e-06a1-eb991776cc09@Hellenic-Institute.Uk">
<pre>BTW, this repeats every year, most of the time it is one of your
particularly strange settings ... ;-)</pre>
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<br>
Well, with the <i>greatest</i> respect, I don't think that this has
ever been established. Each year you claim that it is because my
setup is non-standard, each year I reply that all I am doing is
using the same configuration options that I have been using
(successfully !) since 2008, and that there is no point in exposing
these configuration options if end-users are not intended to use
them, and at that point the conversation seems to dry up ...<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:855c1a3d-f44a-631e-06a1-eb991776cc09@Hellenic-Institute.Uk">
<pre>What about running
tlmgr -v --repository <a href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest/" moz-do-not-send="true">https://texlive.info/tlpretest/</a> update --list
Mind the "-v" and see what is shown?
</pre>
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<br>
"To hear is to obey" :)<br>
<br>
<blockquote type="cite">Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]<br>
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.<br>
<br>
C:\Windows\system32>tlmgr -v --repository
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest/">https://texlive.info/tlpretest/</a> update<br>
--list<br>
D:appending to package log file:
C:/TeX/Live/2020/TeX-MF/Var/web2c/tlmgr.log<br>
D:tlmgr.pl:main: ::tldownload_server hash::
{enabled:1,errorcount:0,initcount:0,<br>
initcout:1,ua:LWP::UserAgent=HASH(0x3801d84)}<br>
D:setup_programs: preferring system versions<br>
D:(w32) trying to set up tar, default
C:/TeX/Live/2020/tlpkg/installer/tar.exe,<br>
arg --version<br>
D:Using shipped C:/TeX/Live/2020/tlpkg/installer/tar.exe for tar
(tested).<br>
D:program curl not usable from path<br>
D:(w32) trying to set up curl, default
C:/TeX/Live/2020/tlpkg/installer/curl/cur<br>
l.exe, arg --version<br>
D:Default program C:/TeX/Live/2020/tlpkg/installer/curl/curl.exe
not readable?<br>
D:program wget found in path<br>
D:program lz4 not usable from path<br>
D:(w32) trying to set up lz4, default
C:/TeX/Live/2020/tlpkg/installer/lz4/lz4.e<br>
xe, arg --version<br>
D:Using shipped C:/TeX/Live/2020/tlpkg/installer/lz4/lz4.exe for
lz4 (tested).<br>
D:program gzip found in path<br>
D:program xz not usable from path<br>
D:(w32) trying to set up xz, default
C:/TeX/Live/2020/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.exe,<br>
arg --version<br>
D:Using shipped C:/TeX/Live/2020/tlpkg/installer/xz/xz.exe for xz
(tested).<br>
D:Using checksum method digest::sha<br>
D:Testing for gpg in gpg<br>
D:Testing for gpg in gpg2<br>
D:Testing for gpg in C:/TeX/Live/2020/tlpkg/installer/gpg/gpg.exe<br>
D:tlmgr.pl: No gpg found, verification implicitly requested,
continuing without<br>
verification<br>
D:TLPDB.pm: trying to initialize from
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texl">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texl</a><br>
ive.tlpdb<br>
D:trying to download
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz</a> to C<br>
:\Users\**********\AppData\Local\Temp\h0QyEY1eSX\o3BgaZ0YVC<br>
D:persistent connection set up, trying to get
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tl">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tl</a><br>
pkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz (for
C:\Users\**********\AppData\Local\Temp\h0QyEY1eSX\o3Bg<br>
aZ0YVC)<br>
D:TLDownload::get_file: response error: 501 Protocol scheme
'https' is not suppo<br>
rted (LWP::Protocol::https not installed) (for
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//t">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//t</a><br>
lpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz)<br>
D:TLUtils::download_file: persistent connection ok, but download
failed: https:/<br>
/texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz<br>
D:TLUtils::download_file: retrying with other downloaders.<br>
D:TLUtils::_download_file_program: wget
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/te">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/te</a><br>
xlive.tlpdb.xz
C:\Users\**********\AppData\Local\Temp\h0QyEY1eSX\o3BgaZ0YVC<br>
D:downloading
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz</a> using wget<br>
--user-agent=texlive/wget --tries=4 --timeout=30 -q -O<br>
SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc<br>
syswgetrc = C:\Program files (x86)\GnuWin32/etc/wgetrc<br>
D:TLUtils::download_file: tried to download using lwp curl wget,
none succeeded<br>
D:TLPDB: downloading
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb.xz</a> didn<br>
't succeed, try
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</a><br>
D:persistent connection set up, trying to get
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tl">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tl</a><br>
pkg/texlive.tlpdb (for
C:\Users\**********\AppData\Local\Temp\h0QyEY1eSX\TKqjjT6<br>
58g)<br>
D:TLDownload::get_file: response error: 501 Protocol scheme
'https' is not suppo<br>
rted (LWP::Protocol::https not installed) (for
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//t">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//t</a><br>
lpkg/texlive.tlpdb)<br>
D:TLUtils::download_file: persistent connection ok, but download
failed: https:/<br>
/texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb<br>
D:TLUtils::download_file: retrying with other downloaders.<br>
D:TLUtils::_download_file_program: wget
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/te">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/te</a><br>
xlive.tlpdb
C:\Users\**********\AppData\Local\Temp\h0QyEY1eSX\TKqjjT658g<br>
D:downloading <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</a>
using wget --u<br>
ser-agent=texlive/wget --tries=4 --timeout=30 -q -O<br>
SYSTEM_WGETRC = c:/progra~1/wget/etc/wgetrc<br>
syswgetrc = C:\Program files (x86)\GnuWin32/etc/wgetrc<br>
D:TLUtils::download_file: tried to download using lwp curl wget,
none succeeded<br>
<br>
C:\TeX\Live\2020\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\tlmgr.pl:
TLPDB::from_file could not<br>
initialize from:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb">https://texlive.info/tlpretest//tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb</a><br>
C:\TeX\Live\2020\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\tlmgr.pl: Maybe the
repository setti<br>
ng should be changed.<br>
C:\TeX\Live\2020\texmf-dist\scripts\texlive\tlmgr.pl: More info:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://tug.org">https://tug.org</a><br>
/texlive/acquire.html<br>
<br>
C:\Windows\system32></blockquote>
<br>
The "**********" replace the administrator's username, for obvious
reasons.<br>
<br>
** Phil.<br>
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