[tex-live] bug of auto_remove_install_force_packages routine in tlmgr.pl

Dohyun Kim nomosnomos at gmail.com
Tue Sep 8 11:07:40 CEST 2009


2009/9/8 T T <t34www at googlemail.com>:
> 2009/9/8 Dohyun Kim <nomosnomos at gmail.com>:
>> Current tlmgr.pl just ignores the condition mentioned at
>> the third line of this comment, that is
>> "which are also present in the remote database."
>> This is a bug, undoubtedly.
>
> Yes, it looks like it. Thanks for digging into it.
>
> However, your patch changes the logic of package calculation
> completely, so I'm not going to apply it without discussion with
> Norbert and others. I committed the following patch instead. Could you
> grab tlmgr.pl from svn and check if it fixes the problem?
>

Thank you so much.
Now it works with no problem, as before.

> BTW, you put a lot of trust in our pretest version to run updates
> completely unattended like that.

I know well it's a pretest version. But as one of developers of
kotex macros and maintainers of local repository, testing
texlive pretest version has become one of my daily work.
And everyday routine job sometimes tends to be done attended.
Anyway, it was my pleasure.

Best regards,
Dohyun Kim


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