[tex-live] [pretest] Update --self hangs

[Zdenek Wagner]

2015-04-27 16:48 GMT+02:00 Uwe Siart <usenet at siart.de>:

> Zdenek Wagner <zdenek.wagner at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have just tried on GNU Linux (Fedora) on x86_64 and everyting worked
> > smoothly. It may take some time to download the packages, I am on a
> > gigabit network so it is fast but if your connection is slower, time
> > required for reinitialization of an updated infrastructure may be
> > longer.
>
> Could it be that this problem is specific to windows? In this update
> perl.win32 was included and I understand that updating the platform upon
> which all the scripts are running is certainly not straight forward.
>

In unix systems, tlmgr can update itself while it is running. It is not
possible in Windows, you have to do this in two separate steps:
tlmgr update -self
tlmgr update -all

If you try the latter without the former, tlmgr should report that "tlmgr
update -self" is needed. I can try at home what happens if I do not specify
-self.

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> Uwe
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> Zdeněk Wagner
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