Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas(a)home.com&gt; writes: Same thing here. I think the culprit is a change in package-get.el, that tries to load a remote file using insert-file-contents-literally. This patch makes updates work again (at least on my machine...). /dan -- Dan Ola Holmsand dan(a)innehall.com Index: lisp/package-get.el =================================================================== RCS file: /usr/CVSroot/XEmacs/xemacs/lisp/package-get.el,v retrieving revision 1.13.2.28 diff -u -r1.13.2.28 package-get.el --- package-get.el 2000/06/14 20:24:03 1.13.2.28 +++ package-get.el 2000/07/10 13:22:21 ＠＠ -400,7 +400,7 ＠＠ (save-excursion (set-buffer buf) (erase-buffer buf) - (insert-file-contents-literally db-file) + (insert-file-contents-internal db-file) (package-get-update-base-from-buffer buf) (if (file-remote-p db-file) (package-get-maybe-save-index db-file)))