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29.0.90; installed packages have status available and obsolete |
Date: |
Tue, 25 Apr 2023 10:02:08 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
I updated installed packages by typing `M-x list-packages', then in the
*Packages* buffer typing `/u', then typing `i' on the lines of the
packages I wanted to update, and then typing `x'. After the
installation completed and the *Packages* buffer was refreshed, I again
typed `/u' and now *Packages* displayed the following (I omitted the
"Descriptions" column):
Packages[upgradable] Version Status Archive
nov 20230421.1548 new melpa
auctex 13.2.0 available gnu
comint-mime 0.3 available gnu
company 20230416.2034 available melpa
dash 20230415.2324 available melpa
markdown-mode 20230412.126 available melpa
osm 20230417.1827 available melpa
posframe 20230423.927 available melpa
posframe 1.4.2 available gnu
sly 20230411.1523 available melpa
tablist 20230321.705 available melpa
websocket 20230305.410 available melpa
auctex 13.1.10 installed
comint-mime 0.2 installed
company 0.9.13 installed
dash 2.19.1 installed
markdown-mode 20230331.913 installed
nov 20230327.1739 installed
osm 20230405.1939 installed
posframe 1.4.1 installed
sly 20230327.1434 installed
tablist 1.0 installed
websocket 1.14 installed
auctex 13.2.0 obsolete
comint-mime 0.3 obsolete
markdown-mode 20230412.126 obsolete
nov 20230411.1833 obsolete
nov 20230421.1548 obsolete
osm 20230417.1827 obsolete
posframe 1.4.2 obsolete
sly 20230411.1523 obsolete
Notice that the highest version of the packages with status "available"
(plus the one with status "new") also have status "obsolete" but not
"status" installed. But in fact, those versions were just installed and
are present in my ~/.emacs.d/elpa directory, and the versions of these
packages with status "installed" are also still present in
~/.emacs.d/elpa, i.e. they were unexpectedly not removed after the newer
versions were (physically) installed.
I can reproduce the above display (also in master) when ~/.emacs.d/elpa
contains the packages listed above with status "installed" or "obsolete"
and ~/.emacs contains only the following lines:
(package-initialize)
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
'(package-archives
'(("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
("nongnu" . "https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/")
("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")))
'(package-selected-packages
'(dash posframe websocket company tablist osm sly comint-mime markdown-mode
auctex nov)))
(custom-set-faces
;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
)
Then typing `M-x list-packages' followed by `/u' produces the above
display in the *Packages* buffer.
In GNU Emacs 29.0.90 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
3.24.37, cairo version 1.17.6) of 2023-04-21 built on strobelfssd
Repository revision: 9ac12592781934bcd934bc0cae71a637311119ec
Repository branch: emacs-29
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101008
System Description: Linux From Scratch r11.3-65-systemd
Configured using:
'configure -C --with-xwidgets 'CFLAGS=-Og -g3'
PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/opt/qt5/lib/pkgconfig'
Configured features:
ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GPM GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG
JSON LCMS2 LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 MODULES NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG
SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS WEBP X11 XDBE XIM
XINPUT2 XPM XWIDGETS GTK3 ZLIB
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Subject: |
Re: bug#63064: 29.0.90; installed packages have status available and obsolete |
Date: |
Mon, 08 May 2023 12:43:22 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) |
On Mon, 08 May 2023 10:33:48 +0200 Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
wrote:
[...]
> I have additional information: I copied my entire ~/.emacs.d/elpa
> directory and the complete value for package-selected-packages to a
> directory under /tmp, then started emacs with HOME set to this
> directory, and then invoked list-packages, and this is the resulting
> display in the *Packages* buffer (omitting the "Description" column):
>
> company 20230416.2034 available melpa
> posframe 20230423.927 available melpa
> sly 20230507.2335 available melpa
> tablist 20230321.705 available melpa
> websocket 20230305.410 available melpa
> company 0.9.13 installed
> posframe 1.4.2 installed
> sly 20230425.2123 installed
> tablist 1.0 installed
> websocket 1.14 installed
> posframe 1.4.1 obsolete
> sly 20230327.1434 obsolete
>
> In contrast to the above display produced from my "real" ~/.emacs.d,
> here there is no doubling in the listing of available and obsolete
> packages, and the listing of installed packages is correct. This seems
> to be the intended display of *Packages*. So there is evidently
> something in my "real" ~/.emacs.d that is causing the above aberrant
> display, but I have no idea what. Does anyone here have a suggestion?
I determined that the aberrant display in *Packages* is due to invoking
(package-initialize) in ~/.emacs.d/init.el. Evidentally I missed the
change in Emacs 27 with regard to this function. I don't understand why
invoking (package-initialize) in init.el when HOME is under /tmp doesn't
have this effect, but that's a separate issue, so I'm closing this bug.
Steve Berman
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