Re: [ELPA] New package: use-package

[Payas Relekar <relekarpayas@gmail.com>]

Re-adding emacs-devel

Payas Relekar <relekarpayas@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Since John gave confirmation for copyrights, I am preparing another PR.
> However, to avoid throwing more non-working commits at John, I thought
> to test it on local first.
>
> For reference, here is my changes:
> https://github.com/jwiegley/use-package/compare/master...bhankas:use-package:master
>
> Then I changed elpa/elpa-packages to point to my clone for use-package
> and tried to build with following:
>
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> First, get the "infrastructure":
>>
>>     git clone --single-branch git://git.savannah.gnu.org/emacs/elpa.git
>>     cd elpa
>>     make
>>
>> then fetch your package:
>>
>>     make packages/use-package
>
> At this point my build is failing with this:
>
> ~~~~
> ~/g/elpa main $ make packages/use-package
> emacs --batch -l admin/elpa-admin.el -f elpaa-batch-archive-update-worktrees use-package
> Cloning branch use-package:
> fatal: 'externals/use-package' is already checked out at '/home/payas/git/elpa/packages/use-package'
>
> ~/g/elpa main $ ls -alh packages/
> total 8.0K
> drwxr-xr-x 2 payas payas 4.0K Nov  3 13:21 .
> drwxr-xr-x 8 payas payas 4.0K Nov  3 13:31 ..
> -rw-r--r-- 1 payas payas    0 Nov  3 13:21 .keep
> ~/g/elpa main ?1 ?
> ~~~~
>
> I believe this is some leftover from previous attempt to build, but
> there is only 1 file in packages/use-directory and it is an empty
> '.keep'
>
> But, I could use some help untangling exactly what is going on here and
> fix it.
>
>> then build your tarballs (they get put into `archive(-devel)/`):
>>
>>     make build/use-package
>>
>> You can also set it up for "in-place use" (along the lines of `package-vc`):
>>
>>     make packages/use-package
>>
>> This last one is the only "normal" make command, which tries to use
>> dependencies to decide what to do, and can be re-run to recompile the
>> modified files.
>
> Thanks,
> Payas


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