[tex-live] tlmgr update problem
Adam R. Maxwell
amaxwell at mac.com
Tue Apr 13 15:57:17 CEST 2010
On Apr 13, 2010, at 4:54 AM, Norbert Preining wrote:
> On Mo, 12 Apr 2010, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:
>> While the tlmgr update was running, I started a VPN session,
>
> that might, depending on your configuration, suddendly route all traffic
> through the VPN, and I am not sure if already running connections
> can cope with that. Be reminded that there is already one open
> connection (persistent download connection).
>
> So since I have no way to trigger that myself I have to say no idea,
> and I guess you have to figure that out yourself.
I'm quite sure that's what it did :). The VPN allows http traffic, but it probably started hitting a network authentication page.
> IN general, messing with the network settings, and setting up a VPN is
> exactely that, is not really the best way to be done during an update.
Yeah, I know that now…but it would be nice if tlmgr marked the failed updates as such and allowed me to rerun the update command.
thanks,
Adam
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