* bug#36637: Package buffer should show where (which archive) a package is installed from
@ 2019-07-13 12:14 Stefan Kangas
2021-08-11 14:54 ` bug#36637: bug#27601: 25.2; Repository is not shown in the *Packages* buffer for installed packages Lars Ingebrigtsen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2019-07-13 12:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 36637
It would be good if there was an indication in the "*Packages*" buffer of where
(what archive) you have installed a package from.
I have added both MELPA and MELPA Stable to `package-archives':
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") t)
(add-to-list 'package-archives
'("melpa-stable" . "https://stable.melpa.org/packages/") t)
I sometimes install packages from gnu (ELPA), sometimes from melpa and sometimes
from melpa-stable.
The package "ivy" is available from all three archives. After installing the
package from gnu, when I run M-x package-list-packages, I see in the "*Package*"
buffer the following two entries (although not next to each other):
ivy 20190709.740 available melpa Incremental
Vertical completYon
ivy 0.11.0 installed Incremental
Vertical completYon
From this, I can figure out that I have not installed it from melpa (its status
is "available"). But I cannot easily know if I installed it from gnu or from
melpa-stable, or if it's available from only one or from both of them.
In this case, the versions on melpa-stable and gnu matches. (Or, at least, the
version number does.) But this just happens to be the case here. Often, the
package does not even exist on gnu, and I wouldn't know that from the above.
It would be good if the second of the above two lines would be this instead:
ivy 0.11.0 installed gnu Incremental
Vertical completYon
It would be even better if the describe-package buffer would also would show the
same information.
Thanks,
Stefan Kangas
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* bug#36637: bug#27601: 25.2; Repository is not shown in the *Packages* buffer for installed packages
2019-07-13 12:14 bug#36637: Package buffer should show where (which archive) a package is installed from Stefan Kangas
@ 2021-08-11 14:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-08-24 14:33 ` Stefan Kangas
0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2021-08-11 14:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Kangas; +Cc: 27601, 36637
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> The package "ivy" is available from all three archives. After installing the
> package from gnu, when I run M-x package-list-packages, I see in the "*Package*"
> buffer the following two entries (although not next to each other):
>
> ivy 20190709.740 available melpa Incremental
> Vertical completYon
> ivy 0.11.0 installed Incremental
> Vertical completYon
I guess the problem here is that we apparently don't save the archive in
`package-alist' when packages are installed? Is there any particular
reason for that?
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* bug#27601: 25.2; Repository is not shown in the *Packages* buffer for installed packages
2021-08-11 14:54 ` bug#36637: bug#27601: 25.2; Repository is not shown in the *Packages* buffer for installed packages Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2021-08-24 14:33 ` Stefan Kangas
0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2021-08-24 14:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 27601, 36637
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> I guess the problem here is that we apparently don't save the archive in
> `package-alist' when packages are installed? Is there any particular
> reason for that?
Yes, this is basically the problem. AFAICT, there is no particular
reason for this, so it should mostly just be a matter of implementing
it.
I didn't consider recording it in package-alist, but I suppose it
could make sense. I'd hope we can find a clean and preferably
backwards-compatible way of doing it.
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