[tex-live] possible tlmgr bug

[Artemio Gonzalez Lopez]

On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

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> On Apr 28, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Artemio Gonzalez Lopez wrote:
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>> When I run tlmgr, I get the following error:
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>> /bin/sh: /Volumes/Macintosh: No such file or directory
>> /usr/local/texlive/current/bin/x86_64-darwin/tlmgr: could not run /Volumes/Macintosh HD/usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/installer/config.guess, cannot proceed, sorry at /Volumes/Macintosh HD/usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 234.
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>> I should say that my texlive installation is NOT on the primary partition (on which I am testing Mac OS X 10.7's developer preview), but on a second partition, which the Mac references as /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/. In other words, texlive's installation directory is
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>> /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/usr/local/texlive/
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>> and /usr/local/texlive is just a symbolic link to the former directory. The problem, I think, is that somewhere in tlmgr the space in "Macintosh HD" is not handled correctly. Would it be easy to fix that?
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>> Thanks in advance,
>> 
>> Artemio
>> 
>> Artemio Gonzalez Lopez
>> artemiog at me.com
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> Can't you use the workaround by simply removing the space from the volume name (i.e., make it /Volumes/MacintoshHD)?
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> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)

Of course I could, and I guess it would solve the problem. But perhaps it would be worth it taking a look at the code and seeing if this (minor) bug can be fixed in an easy way, just to prevent further problems.

Thanks a lot,

Artemio

Artemio Gonzalez Lopez
artemiog at me.com