[tex-live] tlmgr bug

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2009/7/28 Artemio González López <artemio at fis.ucm.es>:
> The latest tlmgr does not work, due to the following bug:
>
> tillina:/usr/local/texlive/2009 artemio$ sudo tlmgr update --all
> Password:
> tlmgr: installation location /Users/koch/texlive2009/Master
> Cannot load TeX Live database from /Users/koch/texlive2009/Master at
> /usr/local/texlive/current/bin/universal-darwin/tlmgr line 3198, <TMP> line
> 101776.
>
> In fact, I seem to remember a remark from a previous poster (regarding
> TeXLive) utility to the effect that the string "/Users/koch/" was present in
> several files in the pretest TeX distribution. Also, "tlmgr option" produces
> the following output:
>
> tillina:/usr/local/texlive/2009 artemio$ tlmgr option
> Destination for symlinks for man pages (sys_man): /usr/local/man
> Default installation location (location): /Users/koch/texlive2009/Master

OK, this looks very wrong to me. We haven't introduced any changes
that could alter the location option.

> Destination for symlinks for info docs (sys_info): /usr/local/info
> Run postinst code blobs (postcode): 1
> Create formats on installation (formats): 1
> Install source files (srcfiles): 1
> Install documentation files (docfiles): 1
> Destination for symlinks for binaries (sys_bin): /usr/local/bin
>
> I tried to fix the problem by setting the location, but I didn't succeed:

This is even more troubling.

>
> tillina:/usr/local/texlive/2009 artemio$ sudo tlmgr update --all
> tlmgr: installation location /usr/local/texlive/2009
> The release version of the installation source and the installation media
> do not agree: source: , media: 2009
> Please fix your location /usr/local/texlive/2009 at
> /usr/local/texlive/current/bin/universal-darwin/tlmgr line 3208, <TMP> line
> 203552.
>
> Is there any other workaround I could try?

You can try giving location on the command line with --location option
(lasts only for single tlmgr invocation). And as a last resort you can
edit the line with 'depend opt_location' in .../tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
and see if that helps.

What tlmgr revision do you have (run 'tlmgr --version')?

Cheers,

Tomek