Re: tlmgr update issue

Max Chernoff via tex-live <[email protected]> Sun, 14 Sep 2025 05:13:43 -0600

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hi Christophe,

On Sun, 2025-09-14 at 13:05 +0200, Christophe Jorssen wrote:
> I'm writing to report an issue I'm experiencing with
>
> sudo tlmgr update --self --all
>
> this morning. When I run the command, I get the following error:
>
> First directive needs to be 'name', not <!doctype html><html
> lang="en"><head><title>Oh noes!</title><link rel="stylesheet"
> href="/.within.website/x/xess/xess.min.css?cachebuster=1.22.0"><meta
> name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"><meta
> name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow"><style> at
> /usr/local/texlive/2025/tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPOBJ.pm line 106, <$retfh> line 1.
>
> I'm using TexLive 2025 on a Linux system.
>
> Could this be a general issue, or is it likely a problem on my end? Any
> guidance would be greatly appreciated.

It looks like whoever is running the mirror you're using enabled Anubis,
but forgot to whitelist tlmgr's user agent. Do you know which mirror
you're using?

(I'm guessing that this is because I gave Norbert bad advice, so if
you're using the texlive.info mirror, then this is my fault, sorry.)

Thanks,
-- Max