[tex-live] Another Problem in update

[George N. White III]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:42 PM, Fengnan Gao <fnsteed at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>
>>> I'm a Emacs user, but I don't know how to use a M-x shell. Some more
>>> hint?
>>
>> If you press the <Alt> key and then "x" you should get the M-x prompt.
>> Just type
>> "shell<CR>" and you should get a window with the cmd prompt where you can
>> enter commands.   I looked for a youtube video to show this, but
>> didn't find one.
>>
>
> Thanks, but I only need the "shell <CR>" part. Thanks again for your
> searching a
> video.
>
> Then the full output is like this:
>
> d:\localwares\emacs-22.3\bin>tlmgr update -all
> tlmgr update -all
> tlmgr: installation location
> ftp://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/
> bin-tlperl.win32: local revision (11607) is newer than revision in
> ftp://ftp.riken.go.jp/pub/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/ (10656),
> not updating.
> update: venturisadf (11599 -> 11686) ... Can't spawn "cmd.exe": No such file
> or directory at d:/texlive/2008/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 459.
> 'pwd' 不是内部或外部命令，也不是可运行的程序
> 或批处理文件。
> d:/texlive/2008/texmf/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl:
> system(d:\texlive\2008\tlpkg\installer\tar.exe -cf
> d:/texlive/2008/temp/__BACKUP_venturisadf.r11599.tar
> texmf-dist/doc/fonts/venturisadf/LICENSE-utopia.txt
> [...]
> tlpkg/tlpobj/venturisadf.tlpobj) failed in , status 255 at
> d:/texlive/2008/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 463.
>
> Can you see any problem for this. I see a "pwd". I know that's a linux
> command, I installed a cygwin, I don't use it to update texlive. Does that
> matter?

This is the bug where the list of files to be archived using tar is too long
for the cmd input buffer.   There is a fix that was created just before
Christmas, so you need to watch for an update to tlmgr (or reinstall
using the latest version), maybe following the instructions for updating
in:

<http://tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html>

You will also need to check the status of the venturisadf package on
your system.   Please post your results, as I encountered this bug
last week but have not had access to WInXP since then to investigate.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia