Heiko Muenkel writes: Heiko, you need to send patches to xemacs-patches, otherwise, they get lost. Also, you should make a ChangeLog entry. Anyway, I think that while the change to `pui-install-selected-packages' is correct, I disagree with the note in `pui-package-install-dest-dir'. The correct patch for that is as follows: 1998-11-04 Colin Rafferty <colin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * package-admin.el (package-admin-add-binary-package): protect setting of default-dir so that we always have a directory name. ? lisp/finder-inf.el Index: lisp/package-admin.el =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs-20/lisp/package-admin.el,v retrieving revision 1.8 diff -u -r1.8 package-admin.el --- package-admin.el 1998/10/13 07:36:45 1.8 +++ package-admin.el 1998/11/05 04:02:27 ＠＠ -323,7 +323,7 ＠＠ ;; Insure that the current directory doesn't change (save-excursion (set-buffer buf) - (setq default-directory pkg-dir) + (setq default-directory (file-name-as-directory pkg-dir)) (setq case-fold-search t) (buffer-disable-undo) (goto-char (setq start (point-max))) ;; Colin