From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Leake Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Local ELPA Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 07:59:01 -0600 Message-ID: <85vbyfvfbu.fsf@stephe-leake.org> References: <52B7BE1A.7080305@dancol.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1387807155 15817 80.91.229.3 (23 Dec 2013 13:59:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 13:59:15 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 23 14:59:21 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 1Vv62S-0003ZR-EB for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 14:59:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33694 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vv62S-0003fb-2Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:59:20 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44319) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vv62J-0003aL-EZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:59:17 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vv62D-0003ch-Gk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:59:11 -0500 Original-Received: from cdptpa-outbound-snat.email.rr.com ([107.14.166.225]:59550 helo=cdptpa-oedge-vip.email.rr.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vv62D-0003bt-Cc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:59:05 -0500 Original-Received: from [75.87.81.6] ([75.87.81.6:55917] helo=TAKVER) by cdptpa-oedge02 (envelope-from ) (ecelerity 3.5.0.35861 r(Momo-dev:tip)) with ESMTP id E2/BE-15079-6A148B25; Mon, 23 Dec 2013 13:59:02 +0000 In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 23 Dec 2013 08:45:04 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (windows-nt) X-RR-Connecting-IP: 107.14.168.130:25 X-Cloudmark-Score: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: BaiduSpider X-Received-From: 107.14.166.225 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:166775 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> This approach doesn't work because a plain git checkout of the ELPA packages >> directory lacks the index files needed. > > You need to "make". The default make target is all-in-place, which does not produce the required index files. I found that this works for me: cd /Projects/elpa make archive-tmp process-archive Together with: (setq package-archives (list (cons "test" "/Projects/elpa/archive/packages"))) -- -- Stephe