From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/61801 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mike Kupfer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general,gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta Subject: where does package-get-info get its info from? (was: gnus 5.10.7 not rendering Latin-1 headers) Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:39:25 -0800 Message-ID: <200601302339.k0UNdPND019441@athyra.sfbay.sun.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138664397 29893 80.91.229.2 (30 Jan 2006 23:39:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:39:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ding-owner+m10331@lists.math.uh.edu Tue Jan 31 00:39:55 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.13]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F3ica-0006jh-77 for ding-account@gmane.org; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:39:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1F3icS-0002U4-00; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:39:36 -0600 Original-Received: from nas02.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.40]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 1F3icN-0002Tz-00 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:39:31 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by nas02.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1F3icL-0000mQ-UG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:39:31 -0600 Original-Received: from brmea-mail-2.sun.com ([192.18.98.43]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1F3icK-0001ZG-00 for ; Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:39:28 +0100 Original-Received: from sfbaymail2sca.sfbay.sun.com ([129.145.155.42]) by brmea-mail-2.sun.com (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k0UNdP8u021794 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 16:39:26 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: from athyra.sfbay.sun.com (athyra.SFBay.Sun.COM [129.146.228.66]) by sfbaymail2sca.sfbay.sun.com (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10/ENSMAIL,v2.2) with ESMTP id k0UNdPLn021215 for ; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:39:25 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from athyra (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by athyra.sfbay.sun.com (8.13.5+Sun/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k0UNdPND019441; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:39:25 -0800 (PST) Original-To: XEmacs Beta , ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Message from Steve Youngs of "Mon, 30 Jan 2006 08:24:51 +1000." X-Mailer: MH-E 7.4.2; nmh 1.0.4; XEmacs 21.4 (patch 18) X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Precedence: bulk Original-Sender: ding-owner@lists.math.uh.edu Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:61801 gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta:22009 Archived-At: SY> (package-get-info 'gnus 'date) SY> => 2005-11-15 Hmm. When I do that, I get (package-get-info 'gnus 'date) "2003-10-13" (package-get-info 'gnus 'author-version) "5.10.2" I thought it might be getting that from $HOME/.xemacs/package-index.LATEST.gpg (which hasn't been updated since 22 September 2004). But if I blow away that file and invoke package-get-info in a new XEmacs process, it creates a new package-index.LATEST.gpg and gives me the same results. The packages that I'm actually running are from a sumo that I unpacked in /usr/local/lib/xemacs/xemacs-packages. mike