[tex-live] Inconsistencies in SVN

[Manuel Pegourie-Gonnard]

[continuing on-list a discussion started off-list by mistake...]

Dirk Ullrich wrote:
> 2008/5/18 Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard <mpg at elzevir.fr>:
>>
>> Yes, they have been updated yesterday and the list of files changed.
>> texlive.tlpdb is re-generated every day around 7:00 GMT, which means:
>> 1. It's normal that it is out of sync just after a package has been updated.
>> 2. It should work now.
>>
> That looks like that SVN's "trunk" is (or can be) in an inconsistent
> state between a package update and next morning 7:00 GMT. 

Exactly. It will be inconsistent only if the list of files within the
package changed, not if only the files themselves did.

> Is there an
> easy way to fix that in the meantime -- at least locally?
> 

I guess the answer is something like running

Master/tlpkg/bin/tlpsrc2tlpdb -all

having a good coffee/beer/whatever while it's running (takes some time), and
trying the install again. If you happen to have a local copy of the TeX
Catalogue, you can use the option -catalogue <path> too, but I guess for
package update only you don't need the catalogue info. Anyway, you'd better
svn revert + svn update texlive.tlpdb the next morning.

Manuel.