[OS X TeX] TLU critical update failure

[Calum Mackay]

Thanks Richard,

One slight concern…

The first time I ran it, that produced the following, and TLU still 
called out the need for a critical update.

However, running it a second time, immediately after, worked fine. TLU 
is now happily updating regular pkgs.

Just a problem with one of the mirrors, perhaps?

thanks very much,

best wishes,
calum.


mbp2018 $ sudo tlmgr update --self
/Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: TLPDB::from_file could not initialize from: 
https://eu.mirrors.cicku.me/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
/Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: Maybe the repository setting should be changed.
/Library/TeX/texbin/tlmgr: More info: https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html


On 18/11/2023 6:55 pm, Richard Koch 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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