[tlu] Unable to find a valid update server.

[Justin C. Walker]

FWIW, I am on High Sierra (10.13.6), and am having no problems (so far).  I am using Mojca’s darwin-legacy, and there’s no wget on my system.

I haven’t been following this closely, so I may be missing something a bit subtle.

Justin

> On May 15, 2021, at 18:55 , Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> Herbert,
> 
> The wget I created only worked for universal-darwin.
> 
> I think one person reported trouble on such a recent Mac, but I may be mistaken. I've been updating with no problems. Probably the problems only occur on x86_64-darwinlegacy. 
> 
> In short, I'm as puzzled as everyone else but suspect that universal-darwin folks have nothing to worry about.
> 
> Dick
> 
>> On May 15, 2021, at 4:44 PM, Herbert Schulz <herbs at wideopenwest.com> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>> On May 15, 2021, at 4:36 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>>  Subject: [tlu] Unable to find a valid update server.
>>> 
>>> Maybe you are on an oldish Mac and you don't have any system curl or
>>> wget available? The wget.x86_64-darwinlegacy binary supplied with TL
>>> does not support SSL, and that is required now by the default repository
>>> url, the https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mirror.ctan.org__;!!C5qS4YX3!UAk0EZFgVYkSyjMhgWej0CK-Pq1DtEA-KtmbPIKf2rc0-MhnlvD9WQgW3KWjUDM$  multiplexor.
>>> 
>>> So ... if this may be the case, you might try explicitly specifying an
>>> http (not https) mirror from the list at
>>> https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ctan.org/mirrors/mirmon__;!!C5qS4YX3!UAk0EZFgVYkSyjMhgWej0CK-Pq1DtEA-KtmbPIKf2rc0-MhnlvD9WQgWwZCOz1w$ .  Not an easy thing to search for, I
>>> know, but that's where we are at the moment.
>>> 
>>> Adam: I'm afraid this manual selection of an http mirror is going to be
>>> the only way forward for people on old Macs without an ssl-enabled curl
>>> or wget available on their system. Norbert and I are cooking up some
>>> tests to output a message in this case, but we can't feasibly
>>> auto-choose an http mirror.
>>> 
>>> At least this is my current understanding of the situation.
>>> 
>>> Best,
>>> Karl
>> 
>> Howdy,
>> 
>> I'm really not familiar with this stuff so please understand my stupidity. 
>> 
>> Is there a reason Dick Koch's ssl enabled wget (and a change back to using that extra line) won't solve the problem?
>> 
>> Good Luck,
>> 
>> Herb Schulz
>> herbs at wideopenwest.com
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> 

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