Re: package-get.el : package-get-user-package-location

Stef> On Mon, Aug 23, 1999 at 02:23:00PM +0200, Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor] wrote: Stef> i agree, it might be that the problem is elsewhere, but the fact is that Stef> package-get.el tries to store the package index into your .xemacs/ Stef> directory. i have nothing against that, except it cannot be and will Stef> never be a directory whose absolute path is "/.xemacs/" because noone Stef> will have a ".xemacs/" at the root of the filesystem. Stef> i agree it should be updating package-index.LATEST.pgp somewhere else Stef> than in ~/.xemacs/etc/package-index.LATEST.pgp but when that someone Stef> wrote the bit where it wanted to store it there, he didn't mean in Stef> /.xemacs/etc/package-index.LATEST.pgp but probably something like Stef> /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages/etc/package-index.LATEST.pgp Stef> it just seemed to me that it aimed for the user's package dir, and Stef> didn't get it correctly, so i helped it. Stef> but i realize that the concept is wrong, and it should aim at the site Stef> directory for packages. it was just probably faster to do what i did, Stef> but wrong i agree. Well, if you want to really fix the problem, you need to coordinate the workings of `package-get-user-package-location', `package-get-maybe-save-index', and `package-get-locate-index-file'. Especially the latter is totally sloppy and should be rewritten. I may get to this next weekend, not before, however. I suspect that the user-local package index really should go into ~/.xemacs/package-index.LATEST.pgp (since it transcends package hierarchies). There's clearly a blatant bug here, but I'd rather leave this eyesore in to remind people things are really broken here, rather than going for the quick fix. -- Cheers =8-} Mike Friede, Völkerverständigung und überhaupt blabla