Re: irchat & other package updates
Pekka Marjola <pema(a)iki.fi> writes:
(BTW, if there are problems with idea.el, irchat does not require it
and could be distributed without it - just add a note pointing
original site.)
I think that was the problem yes.
I finally started using package tools. Getting updated package list
required some digging, since package-ui seems not have any direct
commands for that. (BTW, latest package list lists irchat - with
zenirc description.)
Could you please describe "digging"? I have a patch submitted to XEmacs
patches that automatically offers to update the list-packages list. It
is not in yet however.
I have all package tarballs copied to local directory. Adding
directory was quite simple, though I don't it's a good idea to delete
local tarballs by default.
Are you sure it is doing that? How did you add the local directory, by
adding the dir to package-get-remote? Then package-get should not
delete them.
I had old versions of packages installed with symlinks (installit
Perl
tool), and tried to upgrade on top of those.
If these were 'pre MANIFEST' packages then this would happen I think.
With modern packages it just deletes all files from pkginfo/MANIFEST.name
package-ui is quite useful, but I'd like it to make distinction
between multiple install dirs. Say, if I want to install some packages
to ~/.xemacs, some to xemacs-21.0/lib/xemacs-packages and some to
xemacs/lib/xemacs-packages, I'd like to know which versions are
installed where and to easily change targets.
Package-ui is not up to this right now. Something for after 21.0
Jan