From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Geralt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: document package.el Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2010 10:57:56 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4C5CBA32.9000109@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281296055 21322 80.91.229.12 (8 Aug 2010 19:34:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 19:34:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Christoph Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 08 21:34:11 2010 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 1OiBdK-0006RA-03 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 21:34:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51064 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OiBMM-0004FB-Tf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:16:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=50929 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Oi9g8-0001oB-GA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:29:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhfE6-0006Rt-WB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:58:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-ww0-f41.google.com ([74.125.82.41]:54271) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OhfE6-0006Ra-SE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 04:57:58 -0400 Original-Received: by wwb17 with SMTP id 17so711619wwb.0 for ; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:57:57 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=Z8DysBfl6I1Z2WLDHDVDgISEbVthgG+4YzuORI9hgKA=; b=AbEPE4B/9lkWsAzWGinWMDy7jLgCPckIkXMqLyET3DAEqTIZbCttwKu/ou4x8MFD9E FdeHW95qC9eKiw2Zwm2c6PreB8KH+i3HxSQhQBqqS/apFlCB38T41Ho/WWW5vG31pS9U NJzAFnIv2mugXRRRW4UPNkGJx8IUDyRCVTyDU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=lcO6zSMQPpU/1Sg2pbRgLy/ebE2YrsJ+CLTwHyR1qSWoqxCrJhCub6hFasEANuKfRh y6mLwhZzzZoQkVudJaR1Psw7yExo5KHRwS+6UIzqcRO6azdvINe76vU1hF6WpFC7y4Nt +t2iZhbmFXjMyn2eA1hSPoX8TlHVsvq5jI5zw= Original-Received: by 10.216.179.195 with SMTP id h45mr428533wem.60.1281171476275; Sat, 07 Aug 2010 01:57:56 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.216.11.80 with HTTP; Sat, 7 Aug 2010 01:57:56 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4C5CBA32.9000109@gmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:04:35 -0400 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:128424 Archived-At: Hi, On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Christoph wrote: > I have a couple of thoughts: > I am wondering, is there a way to give package.el a list of packages to go > download from ELPA and install? I would also want it to use this list to > check for new versions of all packages in the list. Either on startup or on > command (M-x package-upgrade). Also, on a new installation of Emacs I would > just tell it "Go get the packages in the list" and it would recreate my > package configuration on that machine. All I need in version control is the > list as part of my init.el, instead of putting the entire elpa/ directory > under version control and deploying it to the new machine. > recently I stumbled upon a package called el-get[1], it basically does what you want, but is more general. It does not only support elpa, but also different version control systems and websites to retrieve packages from. HTH, Geralt. [1]http://blog.tapoueh.org/articles/news/_el-get.html