From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question on updating to 29.1 Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 14:16:07 +0300 Message-ID: <83cyzthls8.fsf@gnu.org> References: <7434968f-40b1-ac55-c692-56a9b1c6a547@magnaspesmeretrix.org> <87350qj8fi.fsf@posteo.net> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34223"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 11 13:16:07 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 1qUQ7j-0008iy-HU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 13:16:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qUQ7X-0006o9-59; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:15:55 -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 1qUQ7I-0006jX-AW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:15:42 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1qUQ7I-0001Bt-2A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Aug 2023 07:15:40 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From:Date: mime-version; bh=5elhVEsyqhxr0AYybZ5Mr81RiODbgXZGnmknALvKdeQ=; b=byw4vWcPa6mQ XjkaQwTqQKKQGz3xmFvOPVsc3jPeOMNza3ZdQVGB3uY0qPIfFgKxAevtKWeLx94GbxL637pk2DZfQ WOEVZViF3wwkoVcItH+wpikfA7W3Dndsiq+V0i4h5gK5MNO5B2WgBF01xijUm0E2cx4UQ5BOq5iSY lUBRes1+C3SvR0wKKnryrdH/ydUA7b3LdXwEEqIQPovm6E6puPJw95pDGW8RXjvP8BPMT6E5vNYcy 5/aVB5i8CoUPPTUhUOB6BWC822zLud1J6fSsC05zYdjE32ugshPb1IG4ISHSTNWbwTXSuhR0s6Lfm 2VIEYCxtyeCjI0VrG+3OCw==; In-Reply-To: (message from PierGianLuca on Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:45:29 +0200) 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:144749 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:45:29 +0200 > From: PierGianLuca > > Thank you Philip and Basile (who gave me advice off-list). > > Sorry for not being clear: > > > Did you install version 28.1 from a Git checkout or from a tarball? > > Tarball. I first *un*installed the Ubuntu pre-packaged Emacs. > > I considered fetching from git, but it would add a layer of things that I don't fully understand. > > So I can simply re-do what I with 28.1 (with minor changes as Philip warned about), and the new Emacs version will simply replace the old. > > 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 ;-)