From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
Subject: Re: Changes After Ubuntu Upgrade
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:57:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <v93bd2ljy6.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ac7t2rl2.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu>
On Sat, Jul 01 2006, Kenneth Jacker wrote:
> >> Once I added "/usr/share/emacs/21.4/lisp/gnus" to the front, I
> >> was able to use the 5.9.0 version of 'gnus'. (Note a copy of
> >> that path *is* in the fifth-to-the-last entry above).
>
> rs> Note that 5.9 is quite old. I'd recommend to use 5.10.8 ("No
> rs> Gnus" is the development version).
>
> OK. I went ahead and removed the Ubuntu 'gnus' package, and changed
> to gnus-5.10.8 from the 'tar' file.
>
> When I first started the newest version, it asked if I wanted to
> convert my files to 5.10.8. After first backing up ;-), I said 'y'.
>
> Everything seems OK except for one thing: many, many of my previous
> read files showed up again as unread. Not sure why that happened ...
This shouldn't happen when upgrading. Downgrading isn't save in
general, though.
> PS One other thing. I'm using emacs-21.4.1 ... is that fully
> compatible with gnus-5.10.8?
Yes, Gnus 5.10.8 is supposed to be compatible with Emacs 21 (and even
20.7).
Bye, Reiner.
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-20 15:02 Kenneth Jacker
2006-06-20 16:22 ` Glyn Millington
2006-06-20 16:41 ` Reiner Steib
2006-06-25 23:02 ` Kenneth Jacker
2006-06-26 7:58 ` Reiner Steib
2006-07-01 16:54 ` Kenneth Jacker
2006-07-15 19:57 ` Reiner Steib [this message]
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