[tlbuild] Unable to update tlmgr

[Norbert Preining]

On Mon, 16 May 2016, Ken Moffat wrote:
> I got the answer to that (use the pretest mirror) from somebody

Aehmm, I thought that is obvious ...

> else's query on the other list.  But: tlmgr knows enough to find the
> correct updates for pretest - could it not remind the user to get
> the pretest script ?

Why? pretest will disappear soon, pretest is for testers, not
for users.

What can be (should be) done is that the update script warns
on downgrading attempt. Need to look into it.

All the best

Norbert

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