[tlu] TLU critical update still faliing

[Bruno Voisin]

> On 19 Nov 2023, at 00:34, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:
> 
> I installed makeself 2.5.0 on tug (/usr/local/share) and committed a
> tiny change to our script to use it (r68895). In my test, the resulting
> archive doesn't have the hard links any more. We'll see what happens
> tonight ... --thanks, karl.

update-tlmgr-r68903.sh from <https://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical/> runs OK indeed on the Mac:

% ./update-tlmgr-r68903.sh --noexec --target tmp-68903
Creating directory tmp-68903
Verifying archive integrity...  100%   MD5 checksums are OK. All good.
Uncompressing TeX Live Manager Updater  100%

compared with the previous version of the script:

% ./update-tlmgr-r68866.sh --noexec --target tmp-68866
Creating directory tmp-68866
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing TeX Live Manager Updater  100%  Extraction failed.
zsh: terminated  ./update-tlmgr-r68866.sh --noexec --target tmp-68866

I was looking at <https://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet>, didn't see any new version appear, was wondering whether this was normal.

Then going back to the tl-makeself-from-tlnet script, which creates update-tlmr-r*.sh, I saw the comment

"(Both [update-tlmgr-r*.{sh,exe}] are created in the nightly cron from tl-update-tlcritical.)"

and looked for tlcritical, found it through Google at <https://tug.org/texlive/tlcritical/>.

I remember vaguely I used tlcritical in the past, but I don't remember why nor how. I looked for information on it in the texlive doc but couldn't find any (but I didn't look hard).

Bruno