Re: Missing tlp for l3backend

Hi Karl,

Messaging just you since it seems to be a pretty isolated issue. Yes, the
next update (the very next day) was successful, all formats built correctly
(obviously since `l3backend` was integrated into `l3kernel`) even during
the erroneous update.

I really didn't experience any issues (except the error message during the
update), I just reported it because Max Chernoff asked me to do that on the
list because he said it was something you'd have a to take a look at after
I messaged him in the TeX.SX chat room. So nothing really bad happened.

Best,
Jonathan

On Thu Aug 20, 2026 at 10:44 PM CEST, Karl Berry wrote:
> Hi Jonathan - thanks for the report.
>
>     tlmgr: inconsistency on (one of) the server(s):
>     https://ftp.rrzn.uni-hannover.de/pub/mirror/tex-archive/systems/texlive/tlnet
>
> I somewhat surmise it was bad luck in your update hitting that mirror at
> the time it was syncing, and the l3backend.tar.xz package file had been
> deleted (on the mirror) but texlive.tlpdb (on the mirror) not yet
> updated. Partly because I didn't see it in my own installation and no
> one else reported it.
>
> I hope and trust a tlmgr update has gone through for you by now.
>
>     tlmgr: tlp for package l3backend cannot be found, please report.
>
> I did fail to completely remove l3backend a couple days ago (was
> finished for last night's update), but not in a way that should have
> caused that error. As far as I understand it ... --thanks, karl.