Using tlmgr and a repo from a local machine

[Norbert Preining]

> tlmgr --repository utente at macchina:/myApps/tlrepo/tlnet update --all

That would be ssh, right?

> The issue is that it asks the password two or three times **for each package** and if the packages are more than 20, this results in a very inefficient way to update.

Yes, because it downloads several files (the bin/src/doc/runfiles
containers).

> I wonder if someone know a trick to avoid all this...

ssh-agent?

Norbert

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