[tex-live] tlmgr query

[Victor Ivrii]

On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Dr. Clea F. Rees <cfrees at imapmail.org> wrote:
> Current version of tlmgr:
> tlmgr revision 10932 (2008-10-12 01:10:17 +0200)
>
> Previous version:
> tlmgr revision 10392
>
>
> Using the previous version to list and then install updates, I see a number
> of complaints that packages cannot be found:
>        niceframe cannot be found in
>        http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
> which I didn't see before. The previous previous version of tlmgr
> reports its version as "unknown". Presumably, the additional verbosity
> is due to the update to version 10392.
>
> The current version doesn't report the packages as missing from TL when
> I ask for a list of updates. Is this correct? I thought that the
> current version would be more likely to report the discrepancy and
> might even remove the packages.
>
> Thanks,
> cfr
>


It looks like current version removes packages if it has instructions
to do so, not if they are not just missing; these instructions are in
the file one downloads from the server.

Because of this (I have tested svn versions for a while) some packages
which were removed from TL before I switched to removing version are
not removed. As a result there is a discrepancy between installations
even if they have now the same version of tlmgr.

coxeter%tlmgr version
tlmgr revision 10932 (2008-10-12 01:10:17 +0200)
TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2008
coxeter%tlmgr show niceframe
tlmgr: installation location http://ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
Cannot find niceframe

and

Mercury:victor182%tlmgr version
tlmgr revision 10932 (2008-10-12 01:10:17 +0200)
TeX Live (http://tug.org/texlive) version 2008

Mercury:victor183%tlmgr show niceframe
tlmgr: installation location http://ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
Package:    niceframe
Category:   Package
ShortDesc:  Support for fancy frames.
LongDesc:   The package defines means of drawing frames around boxes,
using dingbat fonts. Some (MetaFont) font sources are included; the
fonts are available separately in Type 1 format.
Installed:  Yes

(but with newalg situation is opposite)

However very few packages are affected.

Victor




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