[tex-live] restarting TL installation

[George N. White III]

On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 12:18 PM, Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> wrote:

> To anyone interested -- please try the TL install again without
> specifying -url.
>
> Norbert changed the TL downloading to (a) fix on one mirror, and (b)
> include a restart feature.  The general idea is that the downloaded
> files are saved and if already present (and not corrupt), not downloaded
> again.
>
> At present, for the sake of testing they are never deleted, though we
> will change that soon to delete everything on success.

I tried "install-tl -gui"(without --url) on Fedora 8 linux today (July 5th)
using a fresh download of install-tl from:

 ftp://tug.org/texlive/tlnet/tldev/install-tl-unx.tar.gz

This gave version: 9245/9232


[gwhite at cerberus 2008]$ install-tl/install-tl -gui
Platform: i386-linux => 'Intel x86 with GNU/Linux'
Distribution: net  (downloading)
Directory for Temporary Files: '/home/gwhite/tmp'
Installer Directory: 'install-tl'
Using URL http://ctan.troutlilysoftware.com/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev
Loading http://ctan.troutlilysoftware.com/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
Cannot read any package from
http://ctan.troutlilysoftware.com/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb,
seems not to be a TLPDB! at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm line 255.

So ctan.troutlilysoftware.com (21 hops) has a problem.

Next attempt used mirror.unl.edu (16 hops)

$ install-tl/install-tl -gui
Platform: i386-linux => 'Intel x86 with GNU/Linux'
Distribution: net  (downloading)
Directory for Temporary Files: '/home/gwhite/tmp'
Installer Directory: 'install-tl'
Using URL http://ctan.troutlilysoftware.com/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev
Loading http://ctan.troutlilysoftware.com/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
Cannot read any package from
http://ctan.troutlilysoftware.com/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb,
seems not to be a TLPDB! at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm line 255.
[gwhite at cerberus 2008]$ install-tl/install-tl -gui
Platform: i386-linux => 'Intel x86 with GNU/Linux'
Distribution: net  (downloading)
Directory for Temporary Files: '/home/gwhite/tmp'
Installer Directory: 'install-tl'
Using URL http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev
Loading http://mirror.unl.edu/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
Installing: 12many
Installing: ANUfinalexam
[..]
running post install action for xetex
running mktexlsr /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-dist/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Updating /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/ls-R...
mktexlsr: Done.
writing fmtutil.cnf data to /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/web2c/fmtutil.cnf
writing updmap.cfg to /usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/web2c/updmap.cfg
writing language.dat data to
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/tex/generic/config/language.dat
writing language.def data to
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf-var/tex/plain/config/language.def
Tk::Error: Cannot open
/usr/local/texlive/2008/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.us.def at
tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 1330.
 TeXLive::TLUtils::_create_config_files at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 1330
 TeXLive::TLUtils::create_language_def at tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 1324
 main::do_postinst_stuff at install-tl/install-tl line 951
 main::do_installation at install-tl/install-tl line 452
 main::__ANON__ at tlpkg/installer/install-menu-perltk.pl line 352
 Tk callback for .frame1.frame14.button
 Tk::__ANON__ at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Tk.pm line
250
 Tk::Button::butUp at
/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i386-linux-thread-multi/Tk/Button.pm
line 175

I think this problem was reported previously (for a windows install.


I then ran "install-tl --gui" a third time after creating the missing
file.  This time the install
finished, but it seems to have downloaded every file due to md5sum mismatch:

Platform:  i386-linux  => ' Intel x86 with GNU/Linux '
Distribution: net  (downloading)
Directory for Temporary Files: ' /home/gwhite/tmp '
Installer Directory: './install-tl'
Using URL http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev
Loading http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
Installer revision: 9245
Database revision: 9133
Installing: 12many
Downloaded file present, size equal, but md5sum differs
redownloading http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev/tlpkg/12many.tar.lzma!
Downloaded file present, size equal, but md5sum differs
redownloading http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev/tlpkg/12many.source.tar.lzma!
Downloaded file present, size equal, but md5sum differs
redownloading http://carroll.aset.psu.edu/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/tldev/tlpkg/12many.doc.tar.lzma!

In fact:
$ grep 'md5sum differs' install-tl.log | wc -l
3310

I saw this problem on July 1st (using wine) , but our internet
provider was having problems so I don't thnk
my mail got to the list.


-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia