[tex-live] 'tlmgr list' became unusable

Siep Kroonenberg siepo at cybercomm.nl
Mon Dec 11 20:42:05 CET 2017


On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 12:11:40PM -0600, jack wrote:
> On Sun, December 10, 2017 7:54 pm, Norbert Preining wrote:
> >> For years, "tlmgr list" would output a list of all packages and
> >> collections, on one line each.  Those that were installed had their line
> >>  begin with an "i".
> >>
> >> Today I needed "tlmgr list", and when I did it, I found that it now
> >> spits out so much verbose information that it's unusuable.  For each
> >> item, it
> >
> > Sorry, a feature loss during rewrite. Fixed in the repository. If you
> > want to fix it yourself till the next texlive.infra update, patch
> > texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl with the following patch: ---
> > a/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl +++
> > b/Master/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/tlmgr.pl @@ -1537,6 +1537,8 @@ sub
> > action_info { }
> > # loading of tlpdb is done below
> > }
> > +  } elsif (!$what || $what =~ m/^(collections|schemes)$/i) {
> > +    $fmt = "list";
> > } else {
> > $fmt = "detail";
> > }
> >
> 
> Thanks, but the patch does not apply to tlmgr.pl.  E.g., the original file
> contains no "is done below" string.  Perhaps this patch is against master
> rather than what is available to users.

Yes. The svn repository is available at
http://www.tug.org/svn/texlive/trunk/

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg


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