Re: irchat & other package updates
>>>> In <by90gghxev.fsf(a)bolzano.math.ethz.ch>,
>>>> On 10 Dec 1998 15:41:28 +0100,
>>>> "Jan" == Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof(a)math.ethz.ch> writes:
Jan> 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.)
Jan> I think that was the problem yes.
Well, while new packet is waiting to be generated, I'd like to have
irchat-1.03 package... Anyone?
> I finally started using package tools. Getting updated package
list
> required some digging, since package-ui seems not have any direct
Jan> Could you please describe "digging"? I have a patch submitted to XEmacs
Jan> patches that automatically offers to update the list-packages list. It
Jan> is not in yet however.
Well, didn't do that in 21.0b59. I had to run
(package-get-update-base
"/tools/contrib/gen/src/xemacs-packages/package-index.LATEST.pgp")
package-get-remote had value '((nil
"/tools/contrib/gen/src/xemacs-packages/")).
> 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.
Jan> Are you sure it is doing that? How did you add the local directory, by
Jan> adding the dir to package-get-remote? Then package-get should not
Jan> delete them.
First by pui-add-install-directory, then by setting
package-get-remote. I upgraded xemacs-base, and the package was
deleted from source directory. (That was before modifying
package-get-remote; I set package-get-remote and
package-get-remove-copy at the same time.)
> I had old versions of packages installed with symlinks (installit
Perl
> tool), and tried to upgrade on top of those.
Jan> If these were 'pre MANIFEST' packages then this would happen I think.
Yup.
Jan> With modern packages it just deletes all files from pkginfo/MANIFEST.name
OK.
> 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.
Jan> Package-ui is not up to this right now. Something for after 21.0
Yes, not urgent, but nice to have later. Maybe some notes/warning to
info and/or package-ui help?
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