[tex-live] possible tlmgr bug

Reinhard Kotucha reinhard.kotucha at web.de
Wed May 4 09:05:23 CEST 2011


On 2011-04-29 at 22:34:23 +0200, Artemio Gonzalez Lopez wrote:

 > On Apr 29, 2011, at 12:05 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:
 > 
 > > 
 > > On Apr 28, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Artemio Gonzalez Lopez wrote:
 > > 
 > >> When I run tlmgr, I get the following error:
 > >> 
 > >> /bin/sh: /Volumes/Macintosh: No such file or directory
 > >> /usr/local/texlive/current/bin/x86_64-darwin/tlmgr: could not
 > >> run /Volumes/Macintosh
 > >> HD/usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/installer/config.guess, cannot
 > >> proceed, sorry at /Volumes/Macintosh
 > >> HD/usr/local/texlive/2010/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLUtils.pm line 234.
 > >> 
 > >> I should say that my texlive installation is NOT on the primary
 > >> partition (on which I am testing Mac OS X 10.7's developer
 > >> preview), but on a second partition, which the Mac references as
 > >> /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/. In other words, texlive's installation
 > >> directory is
 > >> 
 > >> /Volumes/Macintosh\ HD/usr/local/texlive/
 > >> 
 > >> and /usr/local/texlive is just a symbolic link to the former
 > >> directory. The problem, I think, is that somewhere in tlmgr the
 > >> space in "Macintosh HD" is not handled correctly. Would it be
 > >> easy to fix that?
 > >> 
 > >> Thanks in advance,
 > >> 
 > >> Artemio
 > >> 
 > >> Artemio Gonzalez Lopez artemiog at me.com
 > > 
 > > Howdy,
 > > 
 > > Can't you use the workaround by simply removing the space from
 > > the volume name (i.e., make it /Volumes/MacintoshHD)?
 > > 
 > > Good Luck,
 > > 
 > > Herb Schulz (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
 > 
 > Of course I could, and I guess it would solve the problem. But
 > perhaps it would be worth it taking a look at the code and seeing
 > if this (minor) bug can be fixed in an easy way, just to prevent
 > further problems.

Sorry, but I fear that there are some other scripts in TeX Live which
can't deal with spaces in filenames.  They can't be fixed easily and
it would make more sense to re-write them in Perl in order to make
them work on Windows too.

Thus, I suppose that for the time being you have to rename the
directory.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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