Re: Need advice for upgrading (21.3 --> 21.4)

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+from-uce@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Apr 08 2005, Madhusudan Singh wrote:

>  I am using emacs 21.3 (I compiled it myself with elisp, leim, auctex,
> dvipng, etc.) on Debian Linux (Sarge).
>
>  I wish to upgrade to version 21.4 from sources. My emacs installation is
> located in /usr/local/emacs. What is the best way to upgrade from source
> while making sure that none of the configurations and the great packages
> that I have installed after a year or so of use, get lost, and work with
> version 21.4 ?

21.3 and 21.4 differ only in a security bug fix in the movemail
program.  You could compile 21.4 (or only the movemail program) and
replace only the movemail binary (located in
<prefix>/emacs/<version>/<arch>/movemail).

But if you have installed the lisp packages (like AUCTeX) in the
site-lisp directory, a new (full) installation of Emacs shouldn't do
any harm.

Bye, Reiner.
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