XEmacs Packages have been pre-released (2007-06-11-11)

[Steve Youngs]

* Norbert Koch <viteno at xemacs.org> writes:

* Adrian Aichner <adrian at xemacs.org>:
  > Hello Adrian,

  >> My most recent package update before that went as follows:
  >> 
  >> I had to jump around between pre-release sites and offical release
  >> sites to get all packages installed.
  >> 
  >> Must be confusing to non-regular users.

  > Yes, indeed.  But I don't have a good solution to this problem.

The problem is that the package-index file in pre-releases lists
non-existent files.  Why not, simply symlink the missing ones into the
pre-release directory?

In the pre-release directory...

        for pkg in ../../../*-pkg.tar.gz; do
                ln -sv $pkg .
        done

Do that once every "Official" packages release, and clean up the broken
links.  Then as pre-release packages come into the pre-release directory,
remove the link to the package file it is updating.

Seems like the easiest solution to me.  Perhaps a little more work and
care for Norbert, but nothing that couldn't easily be scripted.  And
the bleeding edge junkies like me who are too lazy to build our own
packages can permanently set `package-get-remote' and get our packages
updated via cron each night. :-)


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