From: Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster@gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 25877@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25877: 26.0.50;M-x list-packages Invalid version list error
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:29:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <216150EE-AC69-4D65-8B81-26A13580C7C4@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <upvarwwgxs.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> On Feb 26, 2017, at 8:39 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Carlo Tambuatco wrote:
>
>>>> ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/package hides
>>>> /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/emacs-lisp/package
>>>
>>> It seems that you aren't using the package.el that comes with Emacs.
>>
>> Not only that, it appears I've been using a pre-release version of
>> emacs all this time…I'm going to revert back to emacs 25.1 for the
>> time being, I think that should solve the problem...
>
> That's up to you. I think the actual problem you reported is due to the
> old version of package.el(c) in your site-lisp, so all you have to do to
> make it go away is delete it. Specifically, it's older than
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2013-11/msg00020.html
>
> and so can't handle things like "Version: 8.6+git" as contained in
> lisp/mh-e/mh-e.el in current Emacs master. If you don't delete it,
> you'll get the same problem with 25.1 and any packages with similar
> version numbers.
I reverted back to emacs 25.1 via macports, and the list-packages command now seems to work, indicating that, for some reason, the pre-release version I had been using had its package overshadowed by the ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/package, but the current release macports emacs does not.
It’s just some idiosyncrasy with how macports configures their emacs releases, I guess.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-27 14:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-26 8:09 bug#25877: 26.0.50;M-x list-packages Invalid version list error Carlo Tambuatco
2017-02-26 23:14 ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-26 23:44 ` Carlo Tambuatco
2017-02-27 1:39 ` Glenn Morris
2017-02-27 14:29 ` Carlo Tambuatco [this message]
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