[tex-live] ctan.binkerton.com download problem

[Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard]

Hi,

Before blacklisting this mirror in TLU, it may be worth trying to fix it by
discussing the problem with its administrator. Cc-ing the CTAN team, though I
know Robin watches the TL list carefully.

Maxwell, Adam R a écrit :
> In TeX Live Utility, I download update-tlmgr-latest.sh for infrastructure
> updates.  A user just reported getting an error where TLU downloaded an HTML
> page instead of a shell script.  I'm not sure which mirror he used, but
> mirror.ctan.org just sent me to the binkerton.com mirror, which isn't
> allowing a direct download of update-tlmgr-latest.sh.
> 
> Opening this in a browser or downloading with curl will give some PHP
> wrapper around the script:
> 
> http://ctan.binkerton.com/systems/texlive/tlnet/update-tlmgr-latest.sh
> 
> It's happened before with this mirror, so I'd like to blacklist it in TLU.
> However, if the user's default repo is mirror.ctan.org and it hands back
> ctan.binkerton.com, I'm not sure what I can do.  Any ideas?
> 
> (that mirror is also giving similar behavior but 404 errors for .pl files,
> which I suspect could cause problems for tlmgr as well?)
> 
> thanks,
> Adam
> 
>