greg(a)alphatech.com (Greg Klanderman) writes: Just have package-get-remote-filename add it. Possibly test first if there is no "＠" present in the site-name. Like this (untested) (defun package-get-remote-filename (search filename) "Return FILENAME as a remote filename. It first checks if FILENAME already is a remote filename. If it is not, then it uses the (car search) as the remote site-name and the (cadr search) as the remote-directory and concatenates filename. In other words anonymous＠site-name:remote-directory/filename No anonymous＠ is added if site-name is of the form user＠site. " (if (efs-ftp-path filename) filename (let ((dir (cadr search))) (concat (if (string-match "＠" (car search)) "/" "/anonymous＠") (car search) ":" (if (string-match "/$" dir) dir (concat dir "/")) filename))))