[OS X TeX] TLU critical update failure

[Tine Wilde]

Hello to all,

I have the same problem. I have attached a log, maybe this helps.

Kind regards, Tine

Tine Wilde
mail at tinewilde.com
www.tinewilde.com




> On 18 Nov 2023, at 23:47, Calum Mackay <calum.mackay at cdmnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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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