Re: (Yet another stab at) Sharing ~/.newsrc.eld among multiple

[Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com>]

"Steven E. Harris" <seh@panix.com> writes:

> Kevin Greiner <kgreiner@xpediantsolutions.com> writes:
>
>> I'd appreciate your feedback.
>>
>> You'll need the latest versions from CVS before applying the diffs.
>
> I got the CVS head and applied your patch. All built well and I see
> after my first run that gnus-agent-covered-methods is gone from
> ~/.newsrc.eld. Was that intentional?

Yes.  gnus-agent-covered-methods was being stored in both .newsrc.eld
and agent/lib/servers.  The later was the traditional location.

> The server definitions aren't
> just shortened; they're not even present. The agent seems to behave
> well and remembers which groups are agentized. Cool.

If you look at agent/lib/servers you'll see that the list of agentized
servers has been shortened to exclude all of the configuration
parameters.

> Now that I'm riding this CVS bandwagon, what is the best tactic to
> incorporate updates. Do you do a "configure/make/make install" after
> each "cvs update"? Or do you just run the Gnus code right out of the
> CVS checkout directory? I guess the latter would just forgo the "make
> install" step. Is that correct?

I do the former (i.e. make install) but mainly because I want to make
sure that my patches will work for someone who doesn't have their own
cvs repository.  You can do whichever is more convenient for yourself.

Kevin