Preparing the way for emacs22 with many individual package updates

[Reinhard Tartler]

>> esr at thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
>> > Note: I tried emacs-snapshot, and would be using it now except that
>> > it doesn't seem to play nice with emacsclient.  Consider this a
>> > minor bug report.

> Michael Olson <mwolson at gnu.org>:
>> Make sure that the /etc/alternatives/emacsclient points to
>> /usr/bin/emacsclient.emacs-snapshot (and likewise for emacsclient.1.gz).
>> This can also be achieved by running the following as root:
>> 
>>   update-alternatives --config emacsclient
>> 
>> If it gives a message like "Nothing to configure" (which happens if you
>> have only one variant of emacs on your system), then do the following
>> to double-check the link:
>> 
>>   update-alternatives --auto emacsclient
>> 
>> This updates both emacsclient and emacsclient.1.gz.

esr at thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) writes:

> Thanks for the tip; this may well resolve my problem.  Is this procedure
> documented anywhere?  I'm still an Ubuntu- and Debian-world novice, where
> would I learn when something like this is advisable?

This is the debian alternatives system, which is a debian heritage. It
is documented in the manpage update-alternatives(8). There was an
article about it in 2005 at
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/91, which is perhaps a
more lightweight lecture for this.

> I'll file a bug report through the tracker previously suggested if
> this doesn't work.

If you have suggestion how to improve the documentation, let us
know. Where would you have expected documentation about
update-alternatives?

> More generally, I'm a fairly heavyweight Emacs expert (author of a
> couple of the standard-library packages, among other things).  
> Please consider me available for package testing.

Okay, I'm currently uploading Michaels emacs22 package to my personal
package archive. They should appear soon there. You can use the
following apt line for installing them (as soon as they get published
and built on the build daemons):

deb http://ppa.dogfood.launchpad.net/siretart/ubuntu/ gutsy main universe
deb-src http://ppa.dogfood.launchpad.net/siretart/ubuntu/ gutsy main universe


-- 
Gruesse/greetings,
Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4
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