Eliot and Andreas,

Are you saying that the following works perfectly?

1) Take http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak4.2-10382-alpha.zip
2) Evaluate
       SmalltalkImage unloadAllKnownPackages.
       MCMcmUpdater updateMissingPackages: false.
3) Choose 'mouse' menu, 'Update Squeak'

--Hannes

On 8/25/10, Andreas Raab <andreas.raab at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 8/24/2010 9:03 PM, Eliot Miranda wrote:
>> Excellent; works perfectly!  The preference must be updated manually
>> because there's no preferences browser (for others evaluate
>> (MCMcmUpdater classPool at: #UpdateMissingPackages put: false)) but with
>> that done update went without a hitch. Thank you!
>
> No, no, no. This is why we have those tagged preferences. All you need
> to do is to evaluate:
>
> 	MCMcmUpdater updateMissingPackages: false.
>
> No need to poke in the classPool or anything :-)
>
> Cheers,
>    - Andreas
>
>