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: Keeping an ELPA checkout Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:16:39 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87hbarw95a.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87fwqaudjs.fsf@lifelogs.com> <8739mauad1.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87tyenks4o.fsf@lifelogs.com> <87pqpage4u.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301434050 3882 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2011 21:27:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:27:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Ted Zlatanov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 23:27:26 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4gRc-0008IW-91 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 23:27:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54534 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4gHR-0007Eu-IE for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42075 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4gHJ-0007DQ-Th for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:16:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4gHI-0002Bu-Qf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:16:41 -0400 Original-Received: from chene.dit.umontreal.ca ([132.204.246.20]:35756) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4gHI-0002Bh-KG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:16:40 -0400 Original-Received: from faina.iro.umontreal.ca (lechon.iro.umontreal.ca [132.204.27.242]) by chene.dit.umontreal.ca (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id p2TLHqnE029675; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:17:52 -0400 Original-Received: by faina.iro.umontreal.ca (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 3815CB4465; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 17:16:39 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <87pqpage4u.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Tue, 29 Mar 2011 10:06:25 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-NAI-Spam-Flag: NO X-NAI-Spam-Threshold: 5 X-NAI-Spam-Score: 0 X-NAI-Spam-Rules: 1 Rules triggered RV3811=0 X-NAI-Spam-Version: 2.2.0.9286 : core <3811> : streams <614767> : uri <838199> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 132.204.246.20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:137877 Archived-At: >>> OK. So who's going to do the work? And can you summarize what you're >>> asking for after this discussion? SM> What I wrote above is the summary, AFAIK. > OK, I'll try to summarize because your requirements are not clear to > me. Tell me if I understand what you're looking for. You describe a possible solution rather than a requirement ;-) > 2) check out or update the ELPA branch to $elpa OK. > 3) cd $elpa; make local-install EMACS=$trunk/src/emacs (this runs the > trunk-built Emacs to `package-install' each ELPA package in > $elpa/packages and then adds "$elpa/packages" to > `package-directory-list' or maybe gives you a snippet to put in your > .emacs). The name "install" is confusing here: I don't want the .el files to be copied. I just want to compile them, extract their autoloads into a file somewhere, and things like that. > The trunk-built Emacs may need to have been installed system-wide. No, that's undesirable. > 4) Now all the ELPA packages should be available as if you had installed > them through `package-install' into ~/.emacs.d because > `package-directory-list' has been augmented If you say so. > 5) any package build and installation artifacts in $elpa need to be > ignored by Bazaar Right. > Is this correct? I'm not sure, but your point 5 makes me think it is. Stefan