[OS X TeX] TLU critical update failure

[Murray Eisenberg]

Dick and Guillermo, thank you for your reassuring replies!

> On Nov 18, 2023, at 1:55 PM, Richard Koch <koch at uoregon.edu> wrote:
> 
> Murray,
> 
> The problem occurred because tlmgr itself was updated. There are two ways
> that such an update can be installed. The easy way is the command
> 
> 	sudo tlmgr update --self
> 
> But an even safer method, if tlmgr gets hopelessly mangled, is to update it
> using a TUG script called update-tlmgr-latest.sh.
> 
> Since Adam Maxwell is a meticulous programmer, he selected the second method
> to use in TeX Live Utility when a tlmgr update is required. 
> 
> Unfortunately, it is now clear that update-tlmgr-latest.sh is broken on Macs.
> This is being debugged by experts, and it may take a while to fix. Note that
> there is nothing wrong in TLU; the bug is in a TUG script which TLU calls.
> 
> The command "sudo tlmgr update --self" ONLY UPDATES the tlmgr code.
> It does not continue to update TeX Live. This command works fine currently.
> 
> Thus you can safely call 
> 
> 	sudo tlmgr update --self
> 
> After that call, TLU will work and you can continue to update as usual.
> 
> Dick 
> 
> 
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