Re: Installing packages
|--==> "AD" == Adam Duck <duck(a)informatik.uni-frankfurt.de> writes:
AD> Hi all (esp. Steve?)!
AD> I just tried to install some packages - i.e. all that are new to me -
AD> from prereleases and got "Unable to find file [...]" for all this
AD> packages:
AD> 36:* fsf-compat 1.10 1.09 FSF Emacs compatibility files.
AD> 51:* mail-lib 1.43 1.42 Fundamental lisp files for providing email
support.
AD> 63:* pcl-cvs 1.58 1.57 CVS frontend.
AD> 75:* skk 1.21 1.20 MULE: Japanese Language Input Method.
AD> and also for the sieve package - which I hadn't anyway.
AD> So, what's the error saying? Does that mean it didn't find it remotely
AD> or does pkg-install think these packages are here on my machine but
AD> weren't transferred due to some error?
This is because even though these packages are new to your system,
they aren't actually in pre-release. You can pick up these packages
from the "normal" download sites.
I need to re-think the "roll->pre-release->final-release" procedure.
The current system has some holes.[1]
Footnotes:
[1] If anyone would like to give me a hand with this, please let me
know.
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