From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
Cc: thievol@posteo.net, 72141@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72141: 29.4; package-upgrade vs package-load-list
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 15:27:31 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8634nt1z2k.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871q3drb4v.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Sun, 28 Jul 2024 11:47:44 +0000)
> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>, 72141@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2024 11:47:44 +0000
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: Thierry Volpiatto <thievol@posteo.net>
> >> Date: Tue, 16 Jul 2024 14:46:37 +0000
> >>
> >>
> >> I think there is a bug here, but please verify with following recipe as
> >> I don't use widely package installation, at least for myself. When reading
> >> the code I believe it is reproductible as well on emacs-30+.
> >>
> >> 1) Install package foo and bar.
> >> 2) Disable them in package-load-list ((foo nil) (bar nil) all).
> >> 3) Wait some time until foo and/or bar have new versions available.
> >> 4) Call package-upgrade-all. It will call package-upgrade on foo
> >> and bar (and possibly others). When package-upgrade find foo
> >> package it will (1) delete it and (2) call package-install which
> >> will refuse to install (error) because foo is disabled.
> >>
> >> As a result we have lost foo package, it is now uninstalled.
> >> Same problem with M-x package-upgrade, foo and bar are listed in
> >> completion and made available whereas they are going to fail to
> >> upgrade.
> >
> > Philip, any comments or suggestions?
>
> The issue is that we don't install a package if it is disabled. So
> either we allow installing (but don't activate) disabled packages, or we
> ignore disabled packages during upgrades.
The latter, I'd say. It makes little sense to upgrade disabled
packages.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-28 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-16 14:46 bug#72141: 29.4; package-upgrade vs package-load-list Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-27 7:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-28 11:47 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-07-28 12:27 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-07-28 12:27 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-07-28 12:39 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-08-01 6:48 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-08-03 3:22 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-08-04 14:57 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-08-04 17:15 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-08-10 17:16 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-08-12 16:36 ` Philip Kaludercic
2024-08-12 17:36 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2024-08-12 18:16 ` Thierry Volpiatto
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