SY> How have you gotten on with this? I usually: SY> Tools -> Packages -> Add Download Site -> pick site This is presumably what was missing, but the WTA signal is a bug in XEmacs. We should trap the nil and give a meaningful error message. Any reasonable patch will be accepted for 21.4. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.

|--==> "APA" == Adrian Aichner <Adrian.Aichner(a)t-online.de&gt; writes: SY> Sorry for the long delay, I've been "offline" for a couple of months. SY> |--==> "s" == steele <steele(a)cs.brandeis.edu&gt; writes: s> Dear Bug Team! s> Choosing Tools>Packages>Update Package Index results in a minibuffer s> display of: "Wrong type argument: stringp, nil" APA> Hi Steve, APA> I have seen this, but it didn't seem reproducible and I didn't find APA> the time to disagnose the problem. It happens when you don't have a '~/.xemacs/package-index.LATEST.pgp' file. If the file can't be found there, it should search <emacs-roots>/lib/xemacs-<version>/etc/, but it doesn't. I can fix this easily (and in fact have), but I've got this silly idea that I can fix the pgp stuff in the package tools as well. I'd like to include that in the same patch. So the fix is a day or so away. In the meantime, if you get bitten by this, the quick work around is cp <emacs-roots>/lib/xemacs-<version>/etc/package-index.LATEST.pgp \ ~/.xemacs/ RET APA> This problem seems to be recent (think weeks or months)? Browsing the ChangeLog would suggest at least a year, possibly two. BTW, this bug doesn't bite XEmacs 21.1.x, only 21.[245].x -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|

SY> It happens when you don't have a SY> '~/.xemacs/package-index.LATEST.pgp' file. If the file can't SY> be found there, it should search SY> <emacs-roots>/lib/xemacs-<version>/etc/, but it doesn't. SY> I can fix this easily (and in fact have), but I've got this SY> silly idea that I can fix the pgp stuff in the package tools SY> as well. I'd like to include that in the same patch. So the SY> fix is a day or so away. Oh yeah, that reminds me. The package tools will install directly into $prefix/lib/xemacs/lisp/$package under some circumstances. It's a problem with the sort-and-select-install-root algorithm there. Are you fixing that too? -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.

|--==> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: SJT> Oh yeah, that reminds me. The package tools will install directly SJT> into $prefix/lib/xemacs/lisp/$package under some circumstances. It's SJT> a problem with the sort-and-select-install-root algorithm there. Are SJT> you fixing that too? I can certainly try. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 9E7E2820>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|