[tex-live] tlmgr does not seem to update my TL 2008 installation

[Zdenek Wagner]

2009/7/8 R (Chandra) Chandrasekhar <chyavana at gmail.com>:
> Dear Folks,
>
> Pardon me if this sounds dumb, but whenever I have tried to update my TL
> 2008 installation for the last few weeks, I have not had any packages
> update, unlike previously.
>
TL 2008 is now frozen, there will be no updates. The developers are
busy with preparations of TL 2009 and it would be too difficult to
maintain both at the same time.

> To trace the reason for this, and to avoid problems relating to GUI usage, I
> finally did the following:
>
> ---
> tlmgr option location
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/
>
> tlmgr update --force --all
>
> which comes back with
>
> tlmgr: installation location
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/2008/
> ---
>
> Have I done anything silly or is it true that TL 2008 has not changed much
> over the last few weeks?
>
> I have a nagging suspicion that comparison between my local installation and
> the net mirror is being somehow subverted, possibly due to wrong syntax.
>
> Grateful for any help you can give me.
>
> Chandra
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