[tex-live] Cannot contact mirror.ctan.org

[Reinhard Kotucha]

On 20 December 2010 Martin Schröder wrote:

 > 2010/10/5 Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at>:
 > > sorry for the long silence, completely forgot ...
 > 
 > And I just noticed that tlmgr still has this problem.
 > 
 > > On Di, 21 Sep 2010, Denis Bitouzé wrote:
 > >> transmise, en attente de la réponse...302 Found Emplacement:
 > >> ftp://ftp.inria.fr/pub/TeX/CTAN/ [suivant] --2010-09-21 11:25:02--
 > >> ftp://ftp.inria.fr/pub/TeX/CTAN/ => «.listing»
 > >
 > > Ouch .... that is bad.
 > >
 > > I guess the follwoing
 > >        LANG=C tlmgr update --list
 > > does work, right?
 > 
 > Yes.

AFAIK, if you set LANG=C, other locale related environment variables
are still evaluated.  If you really don't want locale settings to
interfere with your program, it's better to set LC_ALL=C.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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