[tex-live] tlmgr

[George N. White III]

2009/9/18 Herbert Voss <Herbert.Voss at fu-berlin.de>:

> Am 18.09.2009 09:21, schrieb Norbert Preining:
>
>> On Fr, 18 Sep 2009, Herbert Voss wrote:
>>> since few days I get ??:??/??:??:
>>>
>>> voss at shania:~> tlmgr update --all
>>> tlmgr: package repository http://texlive.guiling.fr
>>> [1/16, ??:??/??:??] auto-install: answers [198k]
>>> [2/16, 01:00/01:02] auto-install: trimspaces [149k]
>>> ...
>>
>> Yes that is normal. The estimated total time and estimated remaining time
>> cannot be computed after at least one package has been updated
>> (ie downloaded).
>>
>> Is that very disturbing?
>
> no, I was only wondering ...

The use of "??:??/??:??" for an unknown time may be a source of concern
to others -- it is not a notation used by other software.  Maybe a
simple "--  / --"
or  "NA / NA" would be more familiar to users.


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