[tldistro] texlive.infra.r72854.tar.xz (and doc) missing from the mirrors

[Norbert Preining]

Hi Florian,

> Mostly for my enlightenment: what is the URL of the tlcritical repository?

ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical

> I don't remember that I had to collect texlive.infra.r69740 from a special
> repo when doing the tl 2023 bump in Gentoo a few months ago. But that's
> probably just me not remembering. ;)

Probably you did pull the version number that was released.

How do you determine which versions to pull?

> That would be appreciated, thanks! If everything in the (latest) tlpdb could
> be fetched fetch from the same URL, then this eliminates special handling

That is already the case!! If you get the tlpdb from a normal CTAN
mirror, *ALL* packages will be available.

(Otherwise the whole system would be badly broken!!!)

That relates to my question above: It seems you are doing something
wrong in packaging. The tlpdb we provide at
	https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
**is** self-contained. All files listed there are supposed to be
available from the same server in .../archive/
(syncing issues that happen being ignored for now).

So, how do you create your list of packages to be downloaded?

Best regards

Norbert

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