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Add support for installing bundled patches.
| author | Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@xemacs.org> |
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| date | Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:32:16 -0800 |
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| 1 Package distributions may be placed in this directory. | |
| 2 If present and a package-path is configured, packages can be installed | |
| 3 using the top-level makefile. | |
| 4 | |
| 5 To configure the package path, use the --with-late-packages option to | |
| 6 configure, which specifies the path to the directory containing the | |
| 7 xemacs-packages and mule-packages hierarchies to install. | |
| 8 | |
| 9 To find out if a distribution includes bundled packages, type | |
| 10 | |
| 11 make check-available-packages | |
| 12 | |
| 13 There are three Make targets that may be available depending on the package | |
| 14 sets supplied. | |
| 15 | |
| 16 make install-bootstrap-packages | |
| 17 Install a selected set of packages sufficient to support | |
| 18 downloading and installing packages via the M-x list-packages | |
| 19 interface. Chose this if you want to be able to install the | |
| 20 latest version of each package immediately. | |
| 21 | |
| 22 make install-nomule-packages | |
| 23 Install the full distribution of packages that do not require a | |
| 24 Mule-enabled XEmacs. Choose this package if you don't have a | |
| 25 Mule-enabled XEmacs and want the convenience of a single-command | |
| 26 installation. You can add or update packages via M-x list-packages | |
| 27 at any time. | |
| 28 | |
| 29 make install-all-packages | |
| 30 Install the full distribution of packages, including those requiring | |
| 31 a Mule-enabled XEmacs. Choose this package if you have a Mule- | |
| 32 enabled XEmacs and want the convenience of a single-command | |
| 33 installation. You can add or update packages via M-x list-packages | |
| 34 at any time. | |
| 35 | |
| 36 DISTRIBUTOR'S NOTE: you may choose what packages you wish to include in | |
| 37 bootstrap.tar.gz, but to make list-packages work you need to include at | |
| 38 least xemacs-base, dired, and efs. The tarball should unpack directly as | |
| 39 an xemacs-packages tree (and optionaly, a mule-packages tree. Also, if | |
| 40 either of xemacs-sumo.tar.gz or xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz is provided, the | |
| 41 other should be as well. | |
| 42 | |
| 43 If packages are not available with the distribution, you can get them at | |
| 44 | |
| 45 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-sumo.tar.gz | |
| 46 ftp://ftp.xemacs.org/pub/xemacs/packages/xemacs-mule-sumo.tar.gz | |
| 47 http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Tools/XEmacs/bootstrap.tar.gz | |
| 48 | |
| 49 and place them in the same directory as this file. You can also make your | |
| 50 own bootstrap.tar.gz by creating a directory xemacs-packages, then | |
| 51 untarring the packages of your choice into that directory, and tarring the | |
| 52 whole thing up with "tar czf bootstrap.tar.gz xemacs-packages". (If you | |
| 53 wish to include mule-packages, you should place them in mule-packages as | |
| 54 a sibling of xemacs-packages.) | |
| 55 | |
| 56 This facility currently does not support installations which configure | |
| 57 the --with-early-packages, --with-late-packages, or --with-last-packages | |
| 58 options. | |
| 59 | |
| 60 This facility currently will not overwrite an existing package | |
| 61 installation, not even if a whole hierarchy (usually the mule-packages) | |
| 62 is missing. In particular, you cannot use this feature to add the | |
| 63 mule-packages to a package installation which lacks them, even if the | |
| 64 hierarchy is missing, or the xemacs-packages hierarchy was installed | |
| 65 this way. Nor can you "upgrade" a bootstrap installation to a full | |
| 66 installation. If you wish to do any of these things you will need to | |
| 67 remove the existing hierarchies. | |
| 68 |