Package: texlive-base Version: 2022.20230122-3 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: debbug.texlive-b...@sideload.33mail.com
This is an attempt to list the locally install pkgs: ===8<---------------------------------------- $ tlmgr --usermode info --only-installed ===8<---------------------------------------- There was simply no output when a long list of texlive packages were expected. So --only-installed was omitted to see if allowing cloud access would change anything: ===8<---------------------------------------- $ torsocks tlmgr --usermode list tlmgr: Local TeX Live (2022) is older than remote repository (2024). Cross release updates are only supported with update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) --update See https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html for details. ===8<---------------------------------------- This seems to imply that users cannot list packages unless their texlive installation is the same version as that of the remote repository. That’s a bit drastic to simply get a list of packages and many Debian users would not want to update the whole texlive installation outside of the apt manager. Ideally, apt would have installed a configuration where the tlmgr-configured repository is aligned with the Debian version. To check the repo, I ran this: ===8<---------------------------------------- $ tlmgr option repository (running on Debian, switching to user mode!) (see /usr/share/doc/texlive-base/README.tlmgr-on-Debian.md) Default package repository (repository): https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet ===8<---------------------------------------- There was mention of “update-tlmgr-latest(.sh/.exe) --update”. This script is not installed and in fact apt-file search does not find it in the Debian repos. The webpage https://tug.org/texlive/upgrade.html suggests installing texlive 2024 and says it can be done without tampering with the existing installation. But still, texlive is huge. So the sensible approach appears to be to find a mirror that matches the locally installed version. The PDF guide mentions this location: https://ctan.org/mirrors/mirmon That list of mirrors does not mention which texlive version is available. It seems having a version-aligned repo is critical to using tlmgr but the guide does not cover how to find a compatible mirror. Having read this doc: /usr/share/doc/texlive-base/README.tlmgr-on-Debian.md it’s unclear if tlmgr can safely accomplish the ultimate mission I had planned: to gracefully downgrade the acro package and pin that older version. That doc suggests using apt, which is generally sensible but in the case at hand it’s too blunt of a tool for that considering the acro package is bundled with in texlive-latex-extra with other apps I would not want to donwgrade. Nonetheless, tlmgr was provided and IMO at a minimum should offer the basic functionality of listing packages and versions without changing the installation. -- Package-specific info: ###################################### List of ls-R files -rw-rw-r-- 1 root staff 5281 Jul 22 2021 /usr/local/share/texmf/ls-R -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3381 Apr 24 16:00 /var/lib/texmf/ls-R lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 Oct 12 2022 /usr/share/texmf/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXMFMAIN lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 9 2023 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 Apr 9 2023 /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/ls-R -> /var/lib/texmf/ls-R-TEXLIVEDIST ###################################### Config files -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 508 Apr 24 15:43 /etc/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 33 Apr 9 2023 /usr/share/texmf/web2c/fmtutil.cnf -> /var/lib/texmf/fmtutil.cnf-DEBIAN -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 16 Jul 21 2021 /usr/local/share/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5130 Apr 24 15:54 /var/lib/texmf/tex/generic/config/language.dat ###################################### Files in /etc/texmf/web2c/ total 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 283 Feb 12 2021 mktex.cnf -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 508 Apr 24 15:43 texmf.cnf ###################################### md5sums of texmf.d 59de20a5ea3b9f41ff51e16811e8499c /etc/texmf/texmf.d/00debian.cnf -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (990, 'stable-updates'), (990, 'stable-security'), (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-28-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages texlive-base depends on: ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.82 ii libpaper-utils 1.1.29 ii sensible-utils 0.0.17+nmu1 ii tex-common 6.18 ii texlive-binaries 2022.20220321.62855-5.1+deb12u1 ii ucf 3.0043+nmu1 ii xdg-utils 1.1.3-4.1 Versions of packages texlive-base recommends: ii lmodern 2.005-1 Versions of packages texlive-base suggests: ii evince [postscript-viewer] 43.1-2+b1 ii ghostscript [postscript-viewer] 10.0.0~dfsg-11+deb12u3 ii mupdf [pdf-viewer] 1.21.1+ds2-1+b4 ii okular [postscript-viewer] 4:22.12.3-1 pn perl-tk <none> ii qpdfview [pdf-viewer] 0.5.0+ds-2 ii qpdfview-ps-plugin [postscript-viewer] 0.5.0+ds-2 ii xpdf [pdf-viewer] 3.04+git20220601-1+b2 pn xzdec <none> Versions of packages tex-common depends on: ii ucf 3.0043+nmu1 Versions of packages tex-common suggests: ii debhelper 13.11.4 Versions of packages texlive-base is related to: ii tex-common 6.18 ii texlive-binaries 2022.20220321.62855-5.1+deb12u1 -- debconf information: texlive-base/texconfig_ignorant: texlive-base/binary_chooser: pdftex, dvips, dvipdfmx, xdvi
