Adrian Aichner <aichner(a)ecf.teradyne.com> writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:
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APA> I ediff-ed it against my fairly up-to-date version, sorted
APA> the same way.
APA> The diffs are frightening:
APA> package sizes are off by very few bytes. Consequently all
APA> md5sums are different.
 Steven, 
 I just checked a few packages in
   /ftp@ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages:
 and all sizes indicate package-get-base.el in Pyrenean-pre2 to be
 wrong. 
 I'll try building now with my package-get-base-latest.el of
yesterday. 
It's pretty clear I can't tell my head from my ass.  O.K.
package-get-base.el is getting `cvs remove'd immediately from the core 
and I'll think up some other method of keeping it straight.