From: Bryan Childs <godeater@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 20844@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20844: 25.0.50; Packages installed with package.el show up as status 'External' in the list-packages buffer
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 20:21:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFMvb4vREsMexcbCHfU60PKca_CPY2qo8dM42MhmnkyT7wsKsQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83a8vxknad.fsf@gnu.org>
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I'll have to do the bulk of your requests tomorrow, as this is happening on
my work machine, and I'm now at home.
One thing I will say is that my ~ is a UNC path to a network share, not a
local drive mapping. Not sure if that matters or not.
On 18 June 2015 at 17:13, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2015 13:45:06 +0100
> > From: Bryan Childs <godeater@gmail.com>
> >
> > (file-in-directory-p "~/.emacs.d/elpa/magit/" "~\\.emacs.d\\elpa")
> > nil
> > (file-in-directory-p "~/.emacs.d/elpa/magit-20150608.1139/"
> > "~\\.emacs.d\\elpa")
> > nil
>
> I cannot reproduce this problem on my Windows machine. I get t, not
> nil. (I don't have a 'magit' sub-directory, so I tried with a
> different name, but it shouldn't matter.)
>
> So there's some other factor at work here.
>
> Where exactly is your "~" directory? Please show its full absolute
> Windows file name. Also, what do you see if you evaluate the
> following expressions, one by one, using 'M-:' ?
>
> (file-attributes "~/.emacs.d/elpa/magit" 'string)
> (file-attributes "~/.emacs.d/elpa" 'string)
> (file-attributes "~/.emacs.d" 'string)
> (file-attributes "~" 'string)
>
> Finally, please try evaluating this in "emacs -Q":
>
> (file-in-directory-p "~/.emacs.d/elpa/magit/" "~\\.emacs.d\\elpa")
>
> Do you still get nil in "emacs -Q"?
>
> Thanks.
>
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-18 12:45 bug#20844: 25.0.50; Packages installed with package.el show up as status 'External' in the list-packages buffer Bryan Childs
2015-06-18 16:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-18 19:21 ` Bryan Childs [this message]
2015-06-18 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <CAFMvb4u5_9eY+29pPt-6RO3KdwM=9WnXCRkJpTftW5hffF_7Wg@mail.gmail.com>
2015-06-19 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-06-19 8:57 ` Bryan Childs
2015-06-19 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
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