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Ensure LATE_PACKAGES_DIRECTORIES is a trivial search path.
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1 Package distributions may be placed in this directory.
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2 If present and a package-path is configured, packages can be installed
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3 using the top-level Makefile.
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5 To configure the package path, use the --with-late-packages option to
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6 configure, which specifies a single directory in which to install the
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7 xemacs-packages and mule-packages hierarchies provided. If this is null,
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8 or contains a Unix-style search path (i.e., a colon is present in the
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9 argument of the --with-late-packages option), you will have to install
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10 the packages by hand.
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12 To find out if a distribution includes bundled packages, type
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14 make check-available-packages
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16 There are three Make targets that may be available depending on the package
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17 sets supplied.
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19 make install-bootstrap-packages
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20 Install a selected set of packages sufficient to support
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21 downloading and installing packages via the M-x list-packages
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22 interface. Chose this if you want to be able to install the
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23 latest version of each package immediately.
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25 make install-nomule-packages
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26 Install the full distribution of packages that do not require a
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27 Mule-enabled XEmacs. Choose this package if you don't have a
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28 Mule-enabled XEmacs and want the convenience of a single-command
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29 installation. You can add or update packages via M-x list-packages
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30 at any time.
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32 make install-all-packages
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33 Install the full distribution of packages, including those requiring
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34 a Mule-enabled XEmacs. Choose this package if you have a Mule-
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35 enabled XEmacs and want the convenience of a single-command
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36 installation. You can add or update packages via M-x list-packages
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37 at any time.
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39 DISTRIBUTOR'S NOTE: you may choose what packages you wish to include in
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40 bootstrap.tar.gz, but to make list-packages work you need to include at
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41 least xemacs-base, dired, and efs. The tarball should unpack directly as
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42 an xemacs-packages tree (and optionaly, a mule-packages tree. Also, if
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43 either of xemacs-sumo.tar.gz or xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz is provided, the
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44 other should be as well.
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46 If packages are not available with the distribution, you can get them at
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48 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-sumo.tar.gz
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49 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz
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50 http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Tools/XEmacs/bootstrap.tar.gz
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52 and place them in the same directory as this file. You can also make your
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53 own bootstrap.tar.gz by creating a directory xemacs-packages, then
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54 untarring the packages of your choice into that directory, and tarring the
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55 whole thing up with "tar czf bootstrap.tar.gz xemacs-packages". (If you
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56 wish to include mule-packages, you should place them in mule-packages as
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57 a sibling of xemacs-packages.)
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59 This facility currently does not support installations which configure
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60 the --with-early-packages, --with-late-packages, or --with-last-packages
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61 options.
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63 This facility currently will not overwrite an existing package
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64 installation, not even if a whole hierarchy (usually the mule-packages)
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65 is missing. In particular, you cannot use this feature to add the
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66 mule-packages to a package installation which lacks them, even if the
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67 hierarchy is missing, or the xemacs-packages hierarchy was installed
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68 this way. Nor can you "upgrade" a bootstrap installation to a full
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69 installation. If you wish to do any of these things you will need to
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70 remove the existing hierarchies.
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