bug#71356: use-package doesn't load org from elpa

[Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez]

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On Thu, 6 Jun 2024 at 08:02, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> From: Pedro Andres Aranda Gutierrez <paaguti@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 07:46:31 +0200
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>, 71356@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Andrea is right. Reading through all the documentation, I implied
> that use-package would upgrade built-in packages if I pinned them to an archive
> and I :ensure'd them.
>
> Use case: want to upgrade org from the 9.6.x version packaged with master to the
> 9.7.x version available in elpa.
>
> Maybe this is more a FR and if so, we could move this to the list and have an informed
> discussion there.

I'd like to hear from Philip.  If use-package just uses package.el,
then the behavior is expected.

Let's see

 

Do you have package-install-upgrade-built-in set non-nil?  If not, can
you set it non-nil and try the recipe again?

Retried on an unpatched emacs master with package-install-upgrade-builtin set to t and had the same behaviour.

 

As for a feature request: what exactly is the feature requested here?
Are you saying that use-package should automatically upgrade built-in
packages?  If so, I don't think this will fly, since it would mean
inconsistencies with package-install.

This is exactly what I would like to discuss ;-) What options do we have to allow built-in packages to be 

upgradable from the archives? Maybe something that would emulate

#+begin_src

(require 'package)
(setq package-install-upgrade-built-in t)
(package-initialize)
(when (not package-archive-contents)
  (package-refresh-contents))
(package-install 'org)

#+end-src

A new keyword in combination with :pin so that we can cherry-pick which packages we want to actually refresh from elpa

and which ones we are fine with if they are built in?

I just want to raise the question (see below ;-) )

Best, /PA

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