try this. i submitted to patches last night but haven't even gotten the usual (immediate) confirmation. i will resubmit. greg CW> CW> Today, I tried to update some packages with by selecting menu item CW> Options -> Customize -> Update Packages. CW> CW> With the first run, it stopped because of CW> CW> Doing chmod: No such file or directory, /home/clstaff/wedler/xemacs/xemacs-21.0-b57/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/pkginfo/MANIFEST.mailcrypt CW> CW> The second selection of this menu item deleted by gnus files :-( CW> Index: lisp/package-admin.el =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs-20/lisp/package-admin.el,v retrieving revision 1.6 diff -u -r1.6 package-admin.el --- package-admin.el 1998/09/26 00:21:59 1.6 +++ package-admin.el 1998/10/02 04:49:18 ＠＠ -405,7 +405,7 ＠＠ (if (file-directory-p file) ;; Keep a record of each directory (setq dirs (cons file dirs)) - (progn + (when (file-exists-p file) ;; Delete each file. ;; Make sure that the file is writable. ;; (This is important under MS Windows.) ＠＠ -446,8 +446,9 ＠＠ ) (kill-buffer tmpbuf) ;; Delete the MANIFEST file - (set-file-modes manifest-file 438) ;; 438 -> #o666 - (delete-file manifest-file) + (when (file-exists-p manifest-file) + (set-file-modes manifest-file 438) ;; 438 -> #o666 + (delete-file manifest-file)) (message "Removing old files for package \"%s\" ... done" package) ) (progn