package frustration
Either I'm being stupid or XEmacs is. I'm using
"21.4 (patch 6) \"Common Lisp (candidate 1)\" XEmacs Lucid"
on an `alpha-dec-osf5.0' system. A while ago, I downloaded a sumo
tarball, so I have old versions of the packages installed. I want to
update my packages, so I choose a download site from Tools -> Packages
-> Add download site. Then I go to Tools -> Packages -> List and
install. After a second or two, I get this:
*ftp anonymous(a)ftp.xemacs.org* seems not a pty. Kill?
First problem: this is meaningless to me, and probably meaningless to
some other people. Could someone rewrite this error message in
English?
Anyway, my three options are "Yes", "No", and "Cancel", and
I haven't
been able to detect any differences in their behaviors. I figure
there's something wrong with the ftp connection, so I select another
download site. (First I choose the one I started with, to unmark that
box, then I choose a new one.) When I try "List and install" again, I
immediately get this:
Process not open for writing: #<process "*ftp
anonymous(a)ftp.sunsite.utk.edu*" pid 480165 state:exit>
This is my second problem: once there is one failure with a download
site to get the package listing, I can't switch to another site and
try again. As far as I can tell, it's not even trying to open the ftp
connection; it just gives an error right away and quits.
--
J. H. Palmieri
Dept of Mathematics, Box 354350 mailto:palmieriļ¼ math.washington.edu
University of Washington http://www.math.washington.edu/~palmieri/
Seattle, WA 98195-4350