[tex-live] revisions going backwards?

[Dan Luecking]

The package bin-tlperl.win32 did indeed go backwards. There
was a version with a script perldoc.bat added. When that was
shown not to solve the problem (with tlmgr --help), an older
version was apparently reinstated. I don't think this has
anything to do with mirrors, only with the timing of previous
updates. I got the same messages on two different machines with
two different mirrors (both set to explicit mirrors, and not
mirror.ctan.org).

You can almost certainly ignore the message. But there
might be a way to force tlmgr to "reverse update" to the
current (earlier) version.

I actually reversed the update by hand, downloading and
unpacking the archive manually (and "updating" the texlive
package database with the following undocumented tlmgr
action
   tlmgr _include_tlpobj tlpkg\tlpobj\bin-tlperl.win32.tlpobj
) Caveat: I don't recommend that anyone do this.


Dan


Daniel H. Luecking
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Arkansas
"Dubito ergo cogito, cogito ergo sum" --Descartes