Re: xetex update via tlmgr fails

Karl Berry <[email protected]> Fri, 10 Apr 2026 10:27:17 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.tex.live
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi Ian,

    the initial fmtutil run tries to build the related
    formats, and fails *silently*

For the record, I just committed (r78652) some changes to install-tl and
related so that if a post-installation command (fmtutil-sys, updmap-sys)
fails, install-tl will be rather noisy about it.

Also, I added a -strict option to install-tl which will make it abort
right away. The default is still -no-strict, to avoid unnecessary
re-downloading of gigabytes.

Hope this works out ok for the future. In any case, thanks for the reports. -k