Re: [Bug: 21.4.13] packages looking for dig

Hi Tim, dig is in net-utils. Thanks for the report. Adrian Tim> ================================================================ Tim> Dear Bug Team! Tim> I updated several packages last night. All seemed to go well, but this Tim> morning I could not start either gnus or VM. The minibuffer said Tim> something like (I'm sorry I did not write down the exact message) Tim> "unable to load dig". Tim> Here are the packages I believe I updated... Tim> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 20:11 ediff Tim> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 8192 Jun 24 20:12 gnus Tim> drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 24 20:12 ilisp Tim> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 20:12 mail-lib Tim> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 20:12 mh-e Tim> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 20:12 prog-modes Tim> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 20:12 texinfo Tim> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 20:12 tm Tim> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 20:12 xemacs-base Tim> drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Jun 24 20:12 xemacs-devel Tim> I tried uninstalling individual packages to try to figure out which Tim> one was causing problems, but I kept getting other problems. I Tim> couldn't simply uninstall mail-lib, for example, because then gnus and Tim> VM would fail for a different reason. But I don't know how to revert Tim> to the previous version either. Tim> I tried upgrading XEmacs from 21.4.10 to 21.4.13, but that didn't Tim> change anything. So I moved the xemacs-packages directory and Tim> installed the sumo-tarball. Now all is well. If I now check the Tim> packages, I see that the packages in question are at older versions. Tim> ediff 1.47 1.46 Tim> gnus 1.71 1.68 Tim> ilisp 1.32 1.31 Tim> mail-lib 1.59 1.57 Tim> mh-e 1.23 1.19 Tim> prog-modes 1.73 1.72 Tim> texinfo 1.24 1.23 Tim> tm 1.36 1.35 Tim> xemacs-base 1.77 1.75 Tim> xemacs-devel 1.55 1.52 Tim> So I believe updating one of these is what caused the problem, but I Tim> still don't know which one. I'm sorry I didn't keep better track of Tim> what was going on. Tim> Thanks, Tim> Tim Heaney <lines deleted by Adrian> -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/