From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric Abrahamsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: ELPA Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 09:06:29 -0800 Message-ID: <8735zf71pm.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> References: <87pn2kk2ig.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <878s98561d.fsf_-_@zoho.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19736"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:nfTp2vMHnmWEHYm+V0sPpAtGyZ8= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 05 18:26:20 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kwq67-000527-Oo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:26:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45558 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwq66-0000tW-Ng for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:26:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45704) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwpn4-0005Lt-H2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:41910) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kwpn2-0003bz-Mv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:06:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kwpn0-0002NL-Tk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 05 Jan 2021 18:06:34 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:126996 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor writes: > Pankaj Jangid wrote: > >> Thanks for all your work. I would like to see ebdb as part >> of built-in packages. But since it is in ELPA, that is >> also okay. > > What is that, like ~/.mailrc ? It's a port/rewrite of BBDB, so it's full-blown contact management, not just mail completion. > As for ELPA... this has happened to me for as long as > I can remember. > > Packages that can be upgraded: 11; type ‘U’ to mark > for upgrading. > > (hit U) > > package-menu--mark-upgrades-1: Wrong type argument: > package-desc, nil > > Also... can you do it without having to do this I don't think either of these things should be happening. Do you have something like this in your init file? (require 'package) (setq package-archives '(("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/") ("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/") ("org" . "http://orgmode.org/elpa/"))) (tbh even the `require' might not be necessary) With that, all the load paths should be set correctly. And I wouldn't be surprised if the earlier error would be resolved as well.