On 2008-02-22 15:56 +0100, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008 11:07:19 +0100, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> Thanks, vm-autoloads contains the autoloads in 8.0.9-1. However, the >> files /etc/emacs*/site-start.d/50vm-init.el are still empty, so the >> autoloads are not defined at Emacs startup and M-x vm RET signals "No >> match". I had to manually load vm-autoloads to make vm work. > >> Since this is not what users expect, I've reopened the bug; I think vm >> should not transition to testing until the problem with the empty >> 50vm-init.el files is resolved. > > This is not really a package bug. The package does not contain > any file called /etc/emacs*/site-start.d/50vm-init.el; instead, it > ships /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-init.el, which is shipped not > empty. > > During installation, ucf is called to install the appropriate > /etc/emacs*/site-start.d/ files; and uses debconf to ask whether or > not to replace the file. Now, I have no idea why the init files are > empty right now on your machine,
Nor do I. :-( Maybe it's time for me to install etckeeper¹. > but it is seen by ucf as a user change > which must be preserved unless the user allows the file to be > replaced -- are you using debconf at a high setting, opting not to see > the question? I use medium priority, and I wasn't asked anything in the last two vm installs (8.0.7-1 and 8.0.9-1). Now I tried "dpkg-reconfigure vm" but that failed miserably: ,---- | remove/vm: Ignoring emacsen flavor emacs. | remove/vm: Removing for emacs-snapshot.../usr/share/emacs-snapshot/site-lisp/vm/... done. | remove/vm: Removing for emacs21.../usr/share/emacs21/site-lisp/vm/... done. | remove/vm: Removing for emacs22.../usr/share/emacs22/site-lisp/vm/... done. | emacs-package-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/vm emacs-snapshot emacs-snapshot emacs21 emacs22 failed at /usr/lib/emacsen-common/emacs-package-install line 30, <TSORT> line 1. `---- Next thing to try was to purge vm which did not work too well either, it left a bunch of files around: ,---- | % ls -l /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm | total 1684 | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12696 Feb 22 18:36 tapestry.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18170 Feb 22 18:36 vcard.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 691 Feb 22 18:36 vm-autoload.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 126410 Feb 22 18:36 vm-autoloads.el | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114472 Feb 22 18:36 vm-autoloads.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35098 Feb 22 18:36 vm-avirtual.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12184 Feb 22 18:36 vm-biff.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4888 Feb 22 18:36 vm-crypto.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2213 Feb 22 10:32 vm-cus-load.el | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12260 Feb 22 18:36 vm-delete.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22190 Feb 22 18:36 vm-digest.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10155 Feb 22 18:36 vm-edit.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 108163 Feb 22 18:36 vm-folder.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6489 Feb 22 18:36 vm-grepmail.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55388 Feb 22 18:36 vm-imap.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1587 Feb 22 18:36 vm-license.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3547 Feb 22 18:36 vm-macro.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18530 Feb 22 18:36 vm-mark.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44962 Feb 22 18:36 vm-menu.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5283 Feb 22 18:36 vm-message-history.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 23573 Feb 22 18:36 vm-message.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 162215 Feb 22 18:36 vm-mime.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 8667 Feb 22 18:36 vm-minibuf.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24402 Feb 22 18:36 vm-misc.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14970 Feb 22 18:36 vm-motion.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18395 Feb 22 18:36 vm-mouse.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 27703 Feb 22 18:36 vm-page.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44648 Feb 22 18:36 vm-pcrisis.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 34405 Feb 22 18:36 vm-pgg.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 31464 Feb 22 18:36 vm-pine.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 30235 Feb 22 18:36 vm-pop.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13090 Feb 22 18:36 vm-ps-print.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46775 Feb 22 18:36 vm-reply.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 67607 Feb 22 18:36 vm-rfaddons.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 28021 Feb 22 18:36 vm-save.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4290 Feb 22 18:36 vm-search.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 24522 Feb 22 18:36 vm-serial.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17409 Feb 22 18:36 vm-sort.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 646 Feb 22 18:36 vm-startup.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7479 Feb 22 18:36 vm-summary-faces.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 42509 Feb 22 18:36 vm-summary.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6757 Feb 22 18:36 vm-thread.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21651 Feb 22 18:36 vm-toolbar.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17550 Feb 22 18:36 vm-undo.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1771 Feb 22 18:36 vm-user.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 216488 Feb 22 18:36 vm-vars.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1866 Feb 22 18:36 vm-vcard.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5310 Feb 22 18:36 vm-version.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 20564 Feb 22 18:36 vm-virtual.elc | -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 17245 Feb 22 18:36 vm-window.elc `---- You probably want to remove these files in your postrm script. And maybe not create them in the first place, because "emacs" is not a flavor for which vm's lisp files should be compiled, IIUIC. Then I reinstalled vm which recreated the 50vm-init.el files: ,---- | install/vm: Byte-compiling for emacs-snapshot... | Creating config file /etc/emacs-snapshot/site-start.d/50vm-init.el with new version | done. | install/vm: Byte-compiling for emacs21... | Creating config file /etc/emacs21/site-start.d/50vm-init.el with new version | done. | install/vm: Byte-compiling for emacs22... | Creating config file /etc/emacs22/site-start.d/50vm-init.el with new version | done. `---- But they are still empty! :-/ What can I do to debug this? > In any case, there is nothing a change in VM can do to fix this > on your machine; just cp the /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-init.el > if you want your init files to be not empty. I'm afraid that they might be empty again after the next update of vm. Luckily I learned Gnus last summer, so I might just kiss vm goodbye. 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