From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Philip Kaludercic Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#63800: 30.0.50; [ELPA] Inaccurate installation instructions for built-in packages Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2023 19:06:38 +0000 Message-ID: <87mt1bks75.fsf@posteo.net> References: <87mt1mi6ry.fsf@localhost> <87y1l5q9p9.fsf@posteo.net> <875y89t2a1.fsf@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="11240"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: 63800@debbugs.gnu.org To: Ihor Radchenko Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 07 21:07:25 2023 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1q6yV9-0002lX-9d for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; 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Wed, 7 Jun 2023 21:06:38 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <875y89t2a1.fsf@localhost> (Ihor Radchenko's message of "Wed, 31 May 2023 06:59:02 +0000") Autocrypt: addr=philipk@posteo.net; keydata= mDMEZBBQQhYJKwYBBAHaRw8BAQdAHJuofBrfqFh12uQu0Yi7mrl525F28eTmwUDflFNmdui0QlBo aWxpcCBLYWx1ZGVyY2ljIChnZW5lcmF0ZWQgYnkgYXV0b2NyeXB0LmVsKSA8cGhpbGlwa0Bwb3N0 ZW8ubmV0PoiWBBMWCAA+FiEEDg7HY17ghYlni8XN8xYDWXahwukFAmQQUEICGwMFCQHhM4AFCwkI BwIGFQoJCAsCBBYCAwECHgECF4AACgkQ8xYDWXahwulikAEA77hloUiSrXgFkUVJhlKBpLCHUjA0 mWZ9j9w5d08+jVwBAK6c4iGP7j+/PhbkxaEKa4V3MzIl7zJkcNNjHCXmvFcEuDgEZBBQQhIKKwYB BAGXVQEFAQEHQI5NLiLRjZy3OfSt1dhCmFyn+fN/QKELUYQetiaoe+MMAwEIB4h+BBgWCAAmFiEE Dg7HY17ghYlni8XN8xYDWXahwukFAmQQUEICGwwFCQHhM4AACgkQ8xYDWXahwukm+wEA8cml4JpK NeAu65rg+auKrPOP6TP/4YWRCTIvuYDm0joBALw98AMz7/qMHvSCeU/hw9PL6u6R2EScxtpKnWof z4oM X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.bugs:263082 Archived-At: Ihor Radchenko writes: > Philip Kaludercic writes: > >>> However, this command will fail for built-in packages. This is >>> particularly a problem for older (<29) Emacs versions. >> >> You probably want to set `package-install-upgrade-built-in' to non-nil, >> or use the package menu to install packages. > > Sure. But only in Emacs >=29 and it is not mentioned on the ELPA page. I am not a fan of the option to begin with, and wouldn't want to advertise it. The official way of switching from built-in packages to ELPA should still be to use the package menu. > For Emacs <29 ELPA instruction simply does not work - attempting to > follow it will just produce unhelpful message that package is already > installed. So what would you suggest changing?