[tex-live] Is tlmgr 2008 now completely unusable?

[Norbert Preining]

Hi,

On Mi, 02 Dez 2009, B Wooster wrote:
> 1) tlmgr should report a better error message other than "location
> unusable" - which sounds like all one needs to do is to fix the

And how should that be detected? If a user starts tlmgr with
	tlmgr --repository http://www.microsoft.com/get-tl-from-ms/
how should we know that this was a valid address?

> location - but a better message would have been "2008 is now obsolete,
> no updates are available. Please install the current latest texlive
> for updates".

If a valid texlive.tlpdb is found in the respective site, the tlmgr
from 2009 already breaks off if the versions disagree with:
	The release version of the installation source and the
	installation media do not agree: source: ....., media: .....
	Please fix your location ......
Again, we cannot be sure what is the correct one! Think about a third
party repository (and they *do* exist) which declares 2008 as repository
replease, after the switch to 2010 an old one.

> 2) http://www.tug.org/texlive/tlmgr.html should say which version it
> refers too and also state when old versions are obsoleted. Certainly

Always the latest released version, please go to 
	http://www.tug.org/texlive
and you will see which version we are talking about.

Actually, the good poiint of this discussion is that I checked the code
of tlmgr and was thinking about the 2009->2010 update and how it
can be handled, and I need some more coding ;-)

Best wishes

Norbert

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