From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: package.el can't install a circular depend and it should be able to. Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:02:42 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87fw2h94mg.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <8738yh10u9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <8738y6o5d8.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87sj66mko0.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358035373 32410 80.91.229.3 (13 Jan 2013 00:02:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 00:02:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nic Ferrier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 13 01:03:10 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TuB2b-0001cM-Ch for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:03:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33026 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TuB2L-000538-5a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:02:53 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:54303) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TuB2G-000530-CX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:02:52 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TuB2B-0004bc-NM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:02:48 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]:45791) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TuB2B-0004bO-KF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:02:43 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AtkGAG6Zu09FpZpV/2dsb2JhbABEgXuyFoEIghUBAQQBViMFCwsOJhIUGA0kiBwFugmQRAOIQppxgViDBw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.75,637,1330923600"; d="scan'208";a="212392306" Original-Received: from 69-165-154-85.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO fmsmemgm.homelinux.net) ([69.165.154.85]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/ADH-AES256-SHA; 12 Jan 2013 19:02:42 -0500 Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 90B9DAE0B8; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:02:42 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <87sj66mko0.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> (Nic Ferrier's message of "Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:27:11 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.182 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:156296 Archived-At: > Right. I thought I did describe it but I didn't include enough detail, > clearly: > - web-test begins an install of web > - web-test begins an install of elnode > - install of elnode begins an install of web What do you mean by "begins an install of"? > install fails because web cannot be found, even though it was requested > to be installed by web-test. What means "install fails"? And why can't web be found since it supposedly was installed already? > Right, it does look like there's a bug. Obviously what you describe points to a bug, yes. Stefan