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I installed XEmacs 21.2 and tried to use the package system... ...some comments: * Invoking "Update package index" pop up a file browser window on the remote ftp site. Is that the intention? Am I supposed to be able to intelligble chose something different than "package-index.LATEST.pgp"? The file browser isn't very user friendly, especially since the view is crowded with all package tar-files. * It says the "package-get entries not PGP signed", is that a problem with the package-index.LATEST.pgp file perhaps? * If you don't select a download site first, Tools->Packages->List'n'Install signals the following. Perhaps an error message would be nice. Signaling: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil) expand-file-name(nil) package-get-update-base(nil t) package-get-require-base(t) ... call-interactively(pui-list-packages) * It would be nice if the download location was saved between sessions. * If you don't have ~/.xemacs/ getting the index file fails with error below. It would be nice not to require ~/.xemacs, and place the index file in /tmp or something. Signaling: (error "/root/.xemacs/ is not a directory") signal(error ("/root/.xemacs/ is not a directory")) cerror("%s is not a directory" "/root/.xemacs/") apply(cerror "%s is not a directory" "/root/.xemacs/") error("%s is not a directory" "/root/.xemacs/") basic-save-buffer-1() basic-save-buffer() save-buffer() write-file("~root/.xemacs/package-index.LATEST.pgp") package-get-maybe-save-index("/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:/pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp") #<compiled-function (&optional db-file force-current) "...(62)" [force-current buf db-file expand-file-name package-get-locate-index-file file-exists-p error "Package-get database file `%s' does not exist" file-readable-p "Package-get database file `%s' not readable" get-buffer-create "*package database*" (...) erase-buffer insert-file-contents-literally package-get-update-base-from-buffer file-remote-p package-get-maybe-save-index] 3 ("/usr/local/lib/xemacs-21.2-b40/lisp/package-get.elc" . 10688) (let (...) (list ...))>("/anonymous＠ftp.xemacs.org:pub/xemacs/packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp") call-interactively(package-get-update-base)