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: [Emacs-diffs] package-archive-priorities ab9a878: Package archives now have priorities. Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:44:52 -0500 Message-ID: References: <20141207131416.24192.18085@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1417974330 11025 80.91.229.3 (7 Dec 2014 17:45:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Dec 2014 17:45:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Jorgen Schaefer To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 07 18:45:24 2014 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 1Xxftb-0006rG-Nv for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 18:45:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58714 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxftb-0003Ks-C0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:45:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59862) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XxftF-0003Aq-HO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:45:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxft7-0003Kf-Rt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:45:01 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.181]:13568) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Xxft7-0003KK-Oq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Dec 2014 12:44:53 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AjsPAOwQflRMCqTq/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDYhuCdZZAQEBAQYBAQEBHpBvBxaEMgWLAYxVBZdUgXiCN4FiIYJ3AQEB X-IPAS-Result: AjsPAOwQflRMCqTq/2dsb2JhbABbgweDYIVaxR0EAgKBJBcBAQEBAQF8hAMBAQMBViMFCws0EhQYDYhuCdZZAQEBAQYBAQEBHpBvBxaEMgWLAYxVBZdUgXiCN4FiIYJ3AQEB X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.07,502,1413259200"; d="scan'208";a="99797920" Original-Received: from 76-10-164-234.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([76.10.164.234]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 07 Dec 2014 12:44:53 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id B35899894; Sun, 7 Dec 2014 12:44:52 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Jorgen Sch's message of "Sun, 07 Dec 2014 13:14:17 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 206.248.154.181 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:179286 Archived-At: > Package archives now have priorities. > When installing packages by name, only packages from archives with > the highest priority are considered, before versions are compared. > This solves the "MELPA problem", where MELPA assigns date-based > version numbers to packages which override all other archives. > Giving MELPA a lower priority means packages are installed from > MELPA only when the package is not available from other archives. > This can be overridden manually by the user. For branches in the emacs.git we like to use the same ChangeLog (and commit message) conventions as for the main branches. Stefan