reftex needs to be upgraded.

Ville Skyttä scop at xemacs.org
Fri Oct 17 13:11:00 EDT 2008


On Friday 17 October 2008, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Hans de Graaff writes:
>  > I'll second David's claim, then. There is no released and versioned
>  > source for XEmacs packages and we notice this in Gentoo.
>
> Excuse me, but by design the released package *is* the versioned
> source.  That was an absolute design requirement of the whole package
> system: you had to be able to modify and rebuild the package (as
> installed, not the tarball), either in-place or in a separate tree.
>
> The CVS tree is a version with different meta-content, with the
> purpose of facilitating contributions to the XEmacs project.

FWIW, the packages I've been shipping in Fedora are built from whole tree of 
sources checked out from CVS using the sumo-yyyy-mm-dd tags.  Works well for 
me.  There are also tags in CVS in package specific dirs corresponding to 
each release of that package (eg. prog-modes-2_15) in case you find that 
useful.




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