[OS X TeX] tlmgr / Tex Live Utility problem?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Sep 27, 2010, at 7:22 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> On Sep 27, 2010, at 3:40 AM, Ralph Martin wrote:
> 
>> Adam, All
>> 
>> Today I installed texlive 2010 on a Mac, then tried to use Tex Live Utility to bring the packages up to date. It told me (I think!) there were about 180 updates, one of which was critical. It updated texlive.infra. I then quit TLU, restarted it, and looked for updates again. It told me there were no updates available, which does not seem right. Here is the output:
>> 
>> 2010-09-27 09:34:14 +0100 Notice +[TLMAppController updatePathEnvironment][2756]	Using PATH = "(
>>   "/usr/bin",
>>   "/bin",
>>   "/usr/sbin",
>>   "/sbin",
>>   "/usr/local/bin",
>>   "/usr/texbin"
>> )"
>> 2010-09-27 09:34:14 +0100 Notice -[TLMMainWindowController _refreshUpdatedPackageListFromLocation:][2756]	Refreshing list of updated packages…
>> 2010-09-27 09:34:14 +0100 Notice -[TLMAppController checkVersionConsistency][2756]	Looks like you're using TeX Live 2010…
>> 2010-09-27 09:34:16 +0100 Notice -[TLMOperation main][2756]	Successfully executed `/usr/texbin/tlmgr --machine-readable --repository http://www.tex.ac.uk/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/ update --list`
>> 2010-09-27 09:34:16 +0100 Notice -[TLMOperation main][2756]	tlmgr update: please specify a list of packages, --all or --self.
>> 2010-09-27 09:34:16 +0100 Notice -[TLMListUpdatesOperation packages][2756]	No data read from standard output stream.
>> 
>> Can anyone shed any light on this?
>> 
>> Best wishes
>> 
>> Ralph
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> I'll report this problem to the maintainer of TLU. Try running
> 
> sudo tlmgr update --all
> 
> (and give your admin password) in Terminal. That should get you going.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 

Howdy,

The problem appears to be with the updated version of tlmgr rather than the TLU front end. We'll have to wait for an update to tlmgr and then, most likely, will have to force the update to the fixed tlmgr via the Actions->Reinstall TeX Live Manager menu command if the bad version was installed. Wait for more information about an update to tlmgr.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)