[tldistro] Help with Arch Linux and tlmgr.pl

[Karl Berry]

Hi Ken,

    the tlpdb file has been separate for three years. 
    
Or since 2016? Not that it matters.

tug$ locate tlpdb-full.tar.gz
../historic/systems/texlive/2016/texlive-20160523-tlpdb-full.tar.gz
../historic/systems/texlive/2017/texlive-20170524-tlpdb-full.tar.gz
../historic/systems/texlive/2018/texlive-20180414-tlpdb-full.tar.gz
../historic/systems/texlive/2019/texlive-20190410-tlpdb-full.tar.gz
../historic/systems/texlive/2020/texlive-20200406-tlpdb-full.tar.gz
../historic/systems/texlive/2021/texlive-20210325-tlpdb-full.tar.gz
../historic/systems/texlive/2022/texlive-20220325-tlpdb-full.tar.gz

    Unfortunately, the canonical source is ftp only
    ftp://tug.org/texlive/historic/2022/texlive-20220325-tlpdb-full.tar.gz

Or rsync, not that that will help with browsers.
tug.org::historic/systems/texlive/2022/texlive-20220325-tlpdb-full.tar.gz

    and my preferred browser no longer opens that, 

Same for me. Common nowadays. But I remain reluctant to make the whole
historic tree available by http(s) on tug, because it will greatly
increase robot traffic (regardless of robots.txt). I figure the mirrors
signed up for handling it more than me :). 
https://tug.org/historic/

Thanks,
Karl