bug#73102: 29.4; `package-recompile-all' should skip packages installed by distro package manager

[Zhengyi Fu <i@fuzy.me>]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Zhengyi Fu <i@fuzy.me> writes:
>
>> When I try recompiling all packages installed by package.el with `M-x
>> package-recompile-all', I got the following error:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (permission-denied "Removing old name"
>> "Permission denied"
>> "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/mu4e-1.10.8/mu4e-a...")
>>   package-recompile(#s(package-desc :name mu4e :version (1 10 8)
>> :summary "the mu mail user agent" :reqs nil :kind nil :archive nil
>> :dir "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/mu4e-1.10.8" :extras nil
>> :signed nil))
>>   package-recompile-all()
>>   funcall-interactively(package-recompile-all)
>>   command-execute(package-recompile-all record)
>>   execute-extended-command(nil "package-recompile-all" "recom all")
>>   funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "package-recompile-all" "recom all")
>>   command-execute(execute-extended-command)
>>
>> This is possibly because the package `mu4e' was installed by the distro
>> package manager in a path where normal users don't have write access.
>>
>> I think `package-recompile-all' should either skip those packages that
>> are not installed by package.el or ignore such errors and continue to
>> recompile other packages.
>
> We have installed a patch in Bug#68678 on master (the commit is from
> last February, so you wouldn't see it yet on 29.4) that wraps the
> `package-recompile' call in a `with-demoted-errors' block.  That would
> still emit a error message, but it wouldn't break the recompilation
> procedure.  Do you think that is enough, or should be explicitly and
> additionally avoid re-compiling external packages?

Yes.  That patch is enough for me.  Thanks!!

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Zhengyi Fu