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Re: Patch for MH-E code

[Bill W. <wo...@ne...>]

Sergey Poznyakoff <gr...@gn...> wrote:

> jdh <dh...@gm...> ha escrit:
> 
> > Here is patch supplied by Sergey of Gnu Mailutils,
> > which is needed to keep MH-E code compatible with  Gnu Mailutils MH
> 
> A short explanation would be in place, perhaps.  When working with
> directory-like mailbox folders (i.e. MH and Maildir), GNU Mailutils
> stores some meta-information about the folder and its content in
> the file .mu-prop, placed in the folder itself.  So, in case of the
> code snippet in question, simply removing .mh_sequences is not enough,
> because .mu-prop still remains and causes delete-directory to fail.
> Recursive deletion fixes the problem.

Explanation appreciated. Thanks!

> 
> Regards,
> Sergey
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Re: Patch for MH-E code

[Sergey P. <gr...@gn...>]

jdh <dh...@gm...> ha escrit:

> Here is patch supplied by Sergey of Gnu Mailutils,
> which is needed to keep MH-E code compatible with  Gnu Mailutils MH

A short explanation would be in place, perhaps.  When working with
directory-like mailbox folders (i.e. MH and Maildir), GNU Mailutils
stores some meta-information about the folder and its content in
the file .mu-prop, placed in the folder itself.  So, in case of the
code snippet in question, simply removing .mh_sequences is not enough,
because .mu-prop still remains and causes delete-directory to fail.
Recursive deletion fixes the problem.

Regards,
Sergey

Patch for MH-E code

[jdh <dh...@gm...>]

Here is patch supplied by Sergey of Gnu Mailutils,
which is needed to keep MH-E code compatible with  Gnu Mailutils MH, Gnu-MH.
Below the mh-comp.el-unpatched.el  is what you now have as the curren 

Please see that it gets incorporated into temacs 

--- mh-comp.el-unpatched.el	2016-08-24 21:22:56.946522799 -0700
+++ mh-comp.el	2016-08-24 22:46:27.541619842 -0700
@@ -925,8 +925,7 @@
                      (list "-form" mh-comp-formfile)))
     (setq new (mm-make-temp-file "comp."))
     (rename-file (concat temp-folder "/" "1") new t)
-    (delete-file (concat temp-folder "/" ".mh_sequences"))
-    (delete-directory temp-folder)
+    (delete-directory temp-folder t)
     new))