Issue customizing package-user-dir in emacs -Q session [emacs 27.x]

Issue customizing package-user-dir in emacs -Q session [emacs 27.x]

[Kaushal Modi]

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Hello,

For CI testing of my emacs-based projects, I customize package-user-dir in
an emacs -Q session to install the required packages in a "sandbox" area.

As an example, for my eless project, I run "make vcheck"[1] to install the
latest Org stable version in an area separate from the user's default
~/.emacs.d/elpa by customizing package-user-dir in a test setup file[2].

The problem is that that approach does not work on emacs 27.x, as it
probably depends on early-init.el even in emacs -Q sessions.

To confirm this issue:

1. git clone https://github.com/kaushalmodi/eless
2. make vcheck

You can review the linked Makefile and setup-eless.el.

@Radon Can you please this on emacs 27.x and suggest how to make it work?

Thanks.

[1]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/eless/blob/master/Makefile
[2]: https://github.com/kaushalmodi/eless/blob/master/build/setup-eless.el
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Kaushal Modi

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Re: Issue customizing package-user-dir in emacs -Q session [emacs 27.x]

[Kaushal Modi]

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On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:35 AM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> The problem is that that approach does not work on emacs 27.x
>

Sorry, I did that again.. By "does not work", I mean that on emacs 27.x,
make vcheck gets stuck at the package installation step (where the packages
should get installed to package-user-dir). So I had to kill make vcheck as
nothing was happening:

> make vcheck
Emacs binary used: emacs
Loading
/home/kmodi/stow/pub_dotfiles/emacs/dot-emacs.d/misc/eless/build/setup-eless.el
(source)...
Emacs is now refreshing its package database...
Importing package-keyring.gpg...
Importing package-keyring.gpg...done
Contacting host: orgmode.org:443
Contacting host: orgmode.org:443
Contacting host: melpa.org:443
Contacting host: melpa.org:443
Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443
Package refresh done
Installing ‘org-plus-contrib’ ..
Setting ‘package-selected-packages’ temporarily since "emacs -q" would
overwrite customizations
Setting ‘package-selected-packages’ temporarily since "emacs -q" would
overwrite customizations
Contacting host: orgmode.org:443
^Cmake: *** [Makefile:83: vcheck] Error 2

Back on emacs 26 branch, I get:

> make vcheck
Emacs binary used: emacs
Loading
/home/kmodi/stow/pub_dotfiles/emacs/dot-emacs.d/misc/eless/build/setup-eless.el
(source)...
[Version check] Emacs 26.0.91
[Version check] Org mode version 9.1.6 (9.1.6-48-gfe7619-elpaplus @
/tmp/kmodi/eless-dev/elpa_26/org-plus-contrib-20180212/)


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Re: Issue customizing package-user-dir in emacs -Q session [emacs 27.x]

[Kaushal Modi]

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On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:39 AM Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi@gmail.com>
wrote:

> The problem is that that approach does not work on emacs 27.x
>

Hi Radon and everyone,

Please ignore that email.. sorry for the noise. It was just network being
too slow.. eventually package installation to custom package-user-dir
worked on emacs -Q (emacs 27.x) too.
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