Re: package system is too fragile

Thursday, 1 October 1998

        Andy Piper <andyp(a)parallax.co.uk&gt; writes in xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org:

...
 The current package delete is great but too optimistic in its
 operation. I often end up having the delete fail so that the
 install doesn't work, but the delete has worked enough so that I
 don't have the package adn so I am left with a subfucntional
 XEmacs. Package delete whould try and do all its housekeeping
 *before* actually nuking the package. 
O.K.

In my hand installations since the introduction of pkginfo/, I have
not had a single failure updating by hand via
$ rm `cat pkginfo/MANIFEST.<package>`
$ tar zxf <staging>/<package>-pkg.tar.gz

There's hope this can work correctly.

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