Re: Updated Packages in Pre-Releases

Steve Youngs <youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: I still can't use the package system (see <ilun1csj4h6.fsf(a)josefsson.org>). To summarize: Selecting "Updating packge index" results in: Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) file-name-directory(nil) (read-file-name "Load package-get database: " (file-name-directory dflt) dflt t (file-name-nondirectory dflt)) (list (read-file-name "Load package-get database: " (file-name-directory dflt) dflt t (file-name-nondirectory dflt))) (let ((dflt ...)) (list (read-file-name "Load package-get database: " ... dflt t ...))) call-interactively(package-get-update-base) and selecting "Update installed packages" result in: (~jas/.xemacs/ does not exist and I don't want to create it either): Signaling: (error "/home/jas/.xemacs/ is not a directory") signal(error ("/home/jas/.xemacs/ is not a directory")) cerror("%s is not a directory" "/home/jas/.xemacs/") apply(cerror "%s is not a directory" "/home/jas/.xemacs/") error("%s is not a directory" "/home/jas/.xemacs/") basic-save-buffer-1() basic-save-buffer() save-buffer() write-file("~jas/.xemacs/package-index.LATEST.pgp") package-get-maybe-save-index("/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp")