Re:

Karl Berry <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Mar 2026 14:33:50 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID <[email protected]>
    ... TeXLive::TLUtils::check_file_and_remove: checksums differ for
    /tmp/SIePn0YDz6/5P2NB_YZIr/texlive-scripts.tar.xz:

This seems to indicate that either the mirror was not synced or there
was some sort of error in downloading from it. I'm not seeing that
there's anything we can do about either one?

    even though the mirror ctan has given me is often problematic.

Consider choosing a good mirror manually from
https://ctan.org/mirrors/mirmon? --best, karl.