Dan> Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas(a)home.com&gt; writes: Dan> Same thing here. I think the culprit is a change in package-get.el, Dan> that tries to load a remote file using Dan> insert-file-contents-literally. This patch makes updates work again Dan> (at least on my machine...). Hi Dan. I made that change and will investigate what's going on here. Your patch fixes the effect, not the cause and it should not get applied to XEmacs sources. More later, Adrian Dan> /dan Dan> -- Dan> Dan Ola Holmsand Dan> dan(a)innehall.com Dan> Index: lisp/package-get.el Dan> =================================================================== Dan> RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/package-get.el,v Dan> retrieving revision 1.13.2.28 Dan> diff -u -r1.13.2.28 package-get.el Dan> --- package-get.el 2000/06/14 20:24:03 1.13.2.28 Dan> +++ package-get.el 2000/07/10 13:22:21 Dan> ＠＠ -400,7 +400,7 ＠＠ Dan> (save-excursion Dan> (set-buffer buf) Dan> (erase-buffer buf) Dan> - (insert-file-contents-literally db-file) Dan> + (insert-file-contents-internal db-file) Dan> (package-get-update-base-from-buffer buf) Dan> (if (file-remote-p db-file) Dan> (package-get-maybe-save-index db-file)))