Re: Remaining package issues in latest (pre8) XEmacs
>>>> "David" == David Bush
<david.bush(a)adn.alcatel.com> writes:
David>
David> I've noticed one other minor annoyance. If I select "r", the list
of
David> required packages is built without reqard to whether the packages are
David> up to date or not.
Yup, that's my fault, I'll look at it tonight.
Darryl Okahata writes:
> > No, it will just ask you if you want to continue without verification.
>
> OK, I'll whack together a patch for this.
Are you sure we need a variable to disable the PGP signature verification?
> Whoa. The `package-get-base-filename' needs to be made into
a
> plain filename (no directory, unless it's a relative path), that's
> located via the paths in `package-get-remote'. Right now, we've got
> two places that contains ftp site information, and we should be using
> only one (`package-get-remote'). Why make people change two variables
> when one will suffice? (This does, however, raise the problem where the
> `package-get-base-filename' file could be obtained from a different
> location from the other packages.)
How about if when it is relative it is searched for in that path?
And the default would be relative. I can do this tonight.