From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/7670 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Changes After Ubuntu Upgrade Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:57:53 +0200 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <874pyfvpj8.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> <87lkrkkff6.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> <87ac7t2rl2.fsf@be.cs.appstate.edu> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1152999644 27103 80.91.229.2 (15 Jul 2006 21:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 21:40:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 15 23:40:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G1rsH-0008QX-4p for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:40:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1G1rsG-0004pG-MV for gegu-info-gnus-english@m.gmane.org; Sat, 15 Jul 2006 17:40:32 -0400 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus X-Face: /U7=m^"/-Dn61mAl{g9e3>\G5Tp,oEX|V)g2I1hBk\ML; )7A?6cmB-y7y?'NA^J<=oz7syB =(McAwIHgLX!.B?R3X}98d@?>CrT094KLWh]WU4gDpnL/")MS(XoQTv`Oq225uL>+; CpPXo$N5e>N> $tPd-gbB^F{gQS#1ase]XO~D4p4M"3+F-7~u]dy3I?Pb8RO*H-EFeWDUf?Rf, d]pv\Jvh2Cht!A=im yKAS2Z%Ao^;}W/qzMvMm Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:m0iarah5rBOJ0pn05y3jO60wPCg= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de Original-X-Trace: news.uni-ulm.de 1152997075 134.60.10.123 (15 Jul 2006 22:57:55 +0200) Original-Lines: 32 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsserver.news.garr.it!kanaga.switch.ch!switch.ch!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!inka.de!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-ulm.de!viandante.physik.uni-ulm.de!not-for-mail Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.gnus:77856 Original-To: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-BeenThere: info-gnus-english@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Announcements and discussions for GNUS, the GNU Emacs Usenet newsreader \(in English\)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: info-gnus-english-bounces+gegu-info-gnus-english=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:7670 Archived-At: 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. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/