From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jens Schmidt via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question on updating to 29.1 Date: Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:04:07 +0200 Message-ID: <59e49b84-6a10-8c02-e990-34589deb8432@vodafonemail.de> References: <7434968f-40b1-ac55-c692-56a9b1c6a547@magnaspesmeretrix.org> <87350qj8fi.fsf@posteo.net> <83cyzthls8.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Jens Schmidt Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3298"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.14.0 To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 12 00:05:03 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qUaFj-0000ce-2J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:05:03 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qUaF0-0007Y7-1g; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qUaEy-0007Xe-Gg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:04:16 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qUaEw-0006GI-MN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 18:04:16 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1qUaEu-0009r8-BS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Aug 2023 00:04:12 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Content-Language: de-DE-frami, en-US In-Reply-To: <83cyzthls8.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, NICE_REPLY_A=-0.972, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:144766 Archived-At: On 2023-08-11 13:16, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> Maybe just a short sentence about this can be added to the INSTALL/README files? > > A short sentence that basically says there's nothing special to do > when you already have an older version installed? Why is this needed? > In general, if there's no problem, we don't say in the instructions > that there's no problem ;-) Now that's interesting: Suppose we have file foobar.el(c) from Emacs 28 installed by "make install" somewhere below, say, /usr/local/... Suppose further foobar.el got removed in Emacs 29. Will it be actively removed from /usr/local/... by a "make install" of Emacs 29? Not sure whether this is what is worrying the OP, but that (and, more generally, version consistency issues) would worry me if used "make install" to "upgrade" a local installation. Or have I missed something here?