[tex-live] tlmgr broken since upgrading wget

[Kevin Klement]

Thanks for your help, Vladimir.

Yes, that seems to be the problem: the non-zero exit status of "wget
-V" or "wget --version".

I'll bring this up at the Arch forums as well. (Allan packaged wget;
ergo Allan broke it.)

In the meantime, I thought I'd share my temporary workaround. I
created a file $HOME/bin/wget, which comes before /usr/bin/wget in my
$PATH, which looks like this:

#!/bin/bash
if [[ "$1" == "-V" ]] || [[ "$1" == "--version" ]] ; then
    /usr/bin/wget $@
    exit 0
else
    /usr/bin/wget $@
    exit $?
fi

This returns a zero exit status if the first argument is "-V" or
"--version" and otherwise returns the normal exit status. Since it
comes first in my $PATH, it gets called instead of /usr/bin/wget.

With this, tlmgr seems to work OK, but it makes me a bit nervous that
it'll break something else.

I'll go ahead and bring this up at the Arch forums and see if anyone
can think of anything better.

On Fri, Sep 2, 2011 at 5:48 AM, Vladimir Lomov <lomov.vl at gmail.com> wrote:
> ** Kevin Klement [2011-09-02 05:30:07 -0400]:
>
>> Yesterday, the package manager (pacman) for ArchLinux x86_64 upgraded
>> me to wget 1.13.3. It seems to be installed properly, is in my $PATH,
>> and works fine for other purposes.
>
>> However, since then, tlmgr no longer works. Here's what I get:
>
>> $ sudo tlmgr update -self -all
>> /usr/local/bin/tlmgr: Initialization failed (in setup_unix_one):
>> /usr/local/bin/tlmgr: could not find a usable wget.
>> /usr/local/bin/tlmgr: Please install wget and try again.
>> Couldn't set up the necessary programs.
>> Installation of packages is not supported.
>> Please report to texlive at tug.org.
>> tlmgr: exiting unsuccessfully (status 1).
>
>> For what it's worth:
>
>
>> $ wget -V
>> GNU Wget 1.13.3 built on linux-gnu.
>
>> +digest
>
>> $ which wget
>> /usr/bin/wget
>
>> Any thoughts?
>
> Same thing here: Archlinux x86_64 with testing enabled/off, actually it
> is problem with wget 1.13.3 _and_ Archlinux.
>
> Try:
> $ wget --version
> $ echo $?
>
> On my systems I have:
> $ wget --version
> GNU Wget 1.13.3 для linux-gnu.
>
> +digest
> $ echo $?
> 3
>
> wget aborts on output of next compiled option.
>
> ---
> WBR, Vladimir Lomov
>
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