Re: Unexpected huge update. Please confirm it is expected.

Didn't someone mention somewhere that CTAN had updated the structure of the catalogue data. I'm guessing that this just comes from that update given taht texlive pulls the data from CTAN.



Lars Madsen
Programmør

Institut for Matematik
Aarhus Universitet

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From: tex-live <[email protected]> on behalf of Sergio Callegari <[email protected]>
Sent: 25 November 2025 11:05
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Unexpected huge update. Please confirm it is expected.


The relevant changeset seems to be 76924, that seems not to really touch any file apart from properties of a huge number of catalogue files. Is this the case? What is this change actually about?

Sergio

On 25/11/2025 09:57, Sergio Callegari wrote:

Hi,

Running tlmgr update I am today receiving 337 package updates on a system that has otherwise has constantly been kept up to date on an at least weekly basis.

Since this seems huge in comparison to the usual flow of update (in the range of at most 10-20 packages each time), it would be nice to know the reason why. This is almost a full rewrite of the texlive tree on my system, as if it was a full upgrade to a new year release. Please be so kind to confirm that it is expected and not the result of some issue, the worst of which would be an infrastructure compromise.

Thanks!

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