[tex-live] Mac OS TeX Live Utility points to out of date repositories

Adam R. Maxwell amaxwell at mac.com
Wed Feb 25 04:27:17 CET 2015


> On Feb 24, 2015, at 19:14 , Alan Litchfield <alan at alphabyte.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> I have just been testing a new disk image on which the TeXLive 2014 has been
> installed. The MacTeX TeX Live Utility is installed and defaults to
> http://mirror.as24220.net/pub/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet/

No, TeX Live Utility defaults to the CTAN multiplexor.

> but we want to set
> it to the local mirror in New Zealand at
> http://mirror.aut.ac.nz/CTAN/systems/texlive/tlnet/
> 
> However the New Zealand listing in the utility points to an out of date mirror
> at http://elena.aut.ac.nz/ctan/systems/texlive/tlnet. This was corrected on
> the master list or repositories last year.

>From a quick look at the revision history, the latest version
has the more recent server in it:

https://github.com/amaxwell/tlutility/releases/tag/1.19

This only affects the list of repositories in the UI, of course;
you can set whatever URL you want as the default. I generally
update the list every time I do a release, but it's just there
as a convenience.

Adam




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