emacs22 upgraded then disappears ??
Ed Greshko
Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Sat May 12 15:15:57 UTC 2007
William Case wrote:
> Hi Ed;
>
> If you are an emacs user, the emacs22 has many great enhancements and
> reorganizations. GNU hasn't yet declared emacs22 out of beta for some
> reason, yet it is extremely stable from my experience and judging from
> the support it gets on the GNU emacs mailing list. It is worth getting
> even if F7 is only a month away.
>
> On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 18:57 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> William Case wrote:
>>
>
>>>> It should be in /usr/bin
>>>>
>>> It has been removed and replaced with emacs-22.0.99.
>> You mean you have a file in /usr/bin called "emacs-22.0.99"?
>>
> Yes.
>
>>>> You're not typing emacs22 are you?
>> I do wonder where you got emacs-22.0.99. As far as I can tell 21.4-17.3.fc6
>> is the latest version.
>>
> Because there was a high demand for it, the emacs22 was made available
> as a beta through Fedora. It is being maintained especially for FC6 and
> will be included in F7. See emacs-22.repo
>
> [emacs-22]
> name=Emacs 22 for Fedora Core $releasever - $basearch
> baseurl=http://people.redhat.com/coldwell/emacs/fedora/$releasever/
> enabled=1
> gpgcheck=0
>
> If you want to check, there is an exchange between me and the emacs22
> maintainer wihin the last 2 - 3 weeks on this mailing list. I usually
> keep all such exchanges but somehow I have inadvertently deleted it. If
> you want to see it just search the April and May postings.
>
> The original reason I wrote this post was to inform the maintainer of
> emacs22 that there was a small problem with his latest update.
I see....
FWIW, I would make an alias for this instead of a link. Also, the rpm query
option of --filesbypkg comes in handy to see what exactly is being installed.
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