Re: Unable to use `package-refresh-contents`: Bad signature from GNU ELPA Signing Agent

[VanL <van@scratch.space>]

> On 25 Jun 2019, at 05:00, Nicky Chorley <nick.chorley@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 at 09:14, VanL <van@scratch.space> wrote:
>> You could try renaming your .emacs file and .emac.d directory so that they won't be used. Then see if you are able to install the 'which-key' package on Emacs 26.1 or 26.2 or 27.
> 
> I've gone through various iterations of removing those and renaming
> them and that hasn't helped in any case :(. Still can't install
> packages.

I was able to install which-key and hyperbole from the gnu-package source but org on 26.1/openbsd-6.5 stopped unexpectedly and I had to use the org-package source directly.

On 26.2/netbsd8.1 I can't update the package list.  The final message says 'error in process sentinel: End of file during parsing' and the *Messages* buffer says...  and this is possibly due to inconsistency in the pkgsrc versions of components yoyoing between 8.0 and 8.1 and experimental current.

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
Importing package-keyring.gpg...done
error in process sentinel: Error retrieving: https://melpa.org/packages/archive-contents "incomprehensible buffer" [2 times]
error in process sentinel: End of file during parsing [2 times]
Updating buffer list...done
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

You may want to look in *Messages* buffer for clues.

>> There are different ways to load packages.  You could try a different way by following a techtube howto guide.
> 
> I've found out about el-get, straight.el and others, so I'll give one
> of them a go.

One mechanism I might try is 'use-package'.