[tex-live] Updating TL on Cygwin

[George N. White III]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:15 AM, Angelo Graziosi
<angelo.graziosi at alice.it> wrote:

> For a few days I have update my Cygwin installation of TL2008 [1]
> whithout problems:
>
> tlmgr -location
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 update -list
> [ IT SHOW PKGS TO BE UPD ]
>
> tlmgr -location
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008 update -all
> [ UPD: remove, install done...]
>
>
> But today when I try: 'tlmgr ftp://ftp.dante.de... update -list', it says
>
> answers cannot be found in
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
> bin-texdoc: local: 10545, source: 10558
> collection-genericextra: local: 9220, source: 10557
> collection-latexextra: local: 10534, source: 10564
> pdftex: local: 10522, source: 10568
> pstricks: local: 9966, source: 10565
> schedule cannot be found in
> ftp://ftp.dante.de/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008
>
> What's happening here?
> (Sorry, but they are only few days I use tlmgr...)

I think this is normal when a package has been removed.
I saw similar messages on a couple systems testing the
new tlmgr.  Normally I use a local mirror site so they all
see a consistent archive.  I suspect the issue is that
the mirrors you tried were missing some packages.

> I have tried also with another mirror
> (http://ftp.uniroma2.it/TeX/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008)
>
> with the same result.

The svnlog has:
 -----------
r10564 | karl | 2008-09-12 00:15:19 +0200 (Fri, 12 Sep 2008) | 1 line

rm answers, nonfree
[...]
r10555 | karl | 2008-09-11 20:24:11 +0200 (Thu, 11 Sep 2008) | 1 line

rm schedule, nonfree
  ---------------

so answers and schedule have been removed recently, but are likely
already installed on your system and might still be present on some
mirror sites.


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