Re: TeX Live, panne [= French for TeX Live breakdown]

Please try this patch if you're up for it. I'll push it out tonight, but
honestly I'm not sure if the update will work and I can't feasibly
test. If it still fails after tonight, you might have to install this
change by hand. I just hope it suffices. So many things are wrong with
how all this happened, but just trying to recover now ... -k

--- tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm.orig	(revision 79649)
+++ tlpkg/TeXLive/TLPDB.pm	(working copy)
@@ -461,6 +461,8 @@
   }
   $self->{'catalogue_merged'} = 1;
 
+  return 1 if $self->media eq "NET";
+
   my $catloc = $self->root . "/$TeXLive::TLConfig::CatalogueDatabaseLocation";
   # for a local root, do not even try if the file is not there; for a net
   # root from_file() handles the download, and a missing file is fine too.