Re: [AUCTeX] problems with 'make install' in 11.81

[Jan-Åke Larsson]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> Except that it does not.  After doing an update with a package I
> made, and which was missing that old %{startupfile} handler, I was
> left with an old
>
>    /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/auctex-init.el
>
> everywhere I tried.  Obviously '[ $1 -eq 0 ]' condition is not
> satisfied in the circumstances. 

The preun script gets the number of package versions that are installed 
after "this" is uninstalled. An upgrade will have one version installed 
after the old package is uninstalled. So nothing happens on upgrade.

The name change is unfortunate, perhaps something in %pre is called for 
here, wdyt?

> Besides you do not know.  An old
> version could have been installed not via an rpm package and somebody
> could have added there an extra code beyond "(require 'tex-site)" so
> just clobbering it is not nice.  One can, and possibly should, spit
> some explicit warnings if that file is found and renamed.

It is added by the rpm. If it still exists when the last version of the 
package is de-installed, it will get clobbered. auctex-init is the 
autoload file and AFAIR contains comments explicitly warning that one 
should not edit it. Configuration goes elsewhere.

/JÅ


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