Package: texlive-base Version: 2022.20230122-3 Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: debbug.texlive-b...@sideload.33mail.com
I was surprised tlmgr had to access the cloud to tell me what version of the acro pkg I have installed: ===8<---------------------------------------- $ tlmgr --usermode info acro /usr/bin/tlmgr: TLPDB::from_file could not initialize from: https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb /usr/bin/tlmgr: Maybe the repository setting should be changed. /usr/bin/tlmgr: More info: https://tug.org/texlive/acquire.html ===8<---------------------------------------- Then noticed docs state “If *pkg* is not locally installed, searches in the remote installation source.” Although the acro pkg is locally installed, I added the --only-installed option because the cloud should not be needed: ===8<---------------------------------------- $ tlmgr --usermode info --only-installed acro package: acro installed: No ===8<---------------------------------------- I know acro is installed system-wide, so tlmgr is apparently not finding it when I run as a user and thus may only know about user-installed pkgs. So I ran as root: ===8<---------------------------------------- # tlmgr info --only-installed acro (running on Debian, switching to user mode!) (see /usr/share/doc/texlive-base/README.tlmgr-on-Debian.md) TLPDB: not a directory, not loading: /root/.local/share/texmf tlmgr: user mode not initialized, please read the documentation! ===8<---------------------------------------- I was baffled that it’s switching to user mode when running as root. This comment clarifies: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=907415#8 It’s because tlmgr runs on Debian that it runs in user mode. That’s not exactly clear from the output message: “(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)” I took that to mean tlmgr detected a Debian system for some reason beyond me, and that it also switched to user mode for some other reason beyond me. It would be more clear if it said: “(running on Debian THUS switching to user mode!)” Users will still be astonished about why Debian implies that we can only run as a user, but it would at least be clear that user mode is an intentional consequence of being on Debian. -- 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/binary_chooser: pdftex, dvips, dvipdfmx, xdvi texlive-base/texconfig_ignorant:
