Re: Minor problem with XEmacs package

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From: Kyle Jones
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:51

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Pete Forman  <pete.forman@westerngeco.com> wrote:
 > kyle_jones@wonderworks.com (Kyle Jones) writes:
 > 
 >  > Pete Forman  <pete.forman@westerngeco.com> wrote:
 >  >  > Please could future VM sourced XEmacs packages exclude directories.
 >  > 
 >  > The question is whether such a package will install if the
 >  > directories don't already exist in the package tree.  I think a
 >  > lot ot VM installations are in ~/.xemacs or
 >  > ~/.xemacs/xemacs-packages and these package trees may not have
 >  > the directories present when VM is installed.  I don't want to
 >  > delete the directories fro mthe tarball unless I know a
 >  > first-time installation is still going to work.
 > 
 > I thought that tar created directories as needed.  Are there versions
 > around that don't?

I'd assumed something other than tar was being used on Windows.
If tar is all we have to worry about then I don't think the
existence of directory entries in the tarball matters.

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