From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: `package.el' and built-in packages
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2016 20:52:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvpotvk5wo.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: etPan.56c62435.4783cd7d.813a@Stratovarius.P-661HNU-F3
> this when trying to set up my Emacs config to automatically pull in packages
> if they are not installed, which in turn failed to install a newer version
> of Org that the one shipped with Emacs.
`package-install` should install a newer version if one is available.
I can see two reasons why it failed for you:
- when you called `package-install` the package info from the archives
had not yet been refreshed/loaded. IOW, maybe you should have called
`package-refresh-contents` before.
- Org has a messed up package versioning scheme, so maybe that got in
the way (tho IIUC it should not be an issue here).
> I think that `package.el’ should be able to install packages even if they
> are built-in, since it install them to `~/.emacs.d/elpa’ anyways.
It is able to.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-12 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-18 20:06 `package.el' and built-in packages Jiří Šebele
2016-04-12 0:30 ` alex
2016-04-12 0:52 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-04-12 2:10 ` alex
2016-04-12 2:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2016-04-12 13:07 ` Artur Malabarba
2016-04-12 13:17 ` Kaushal Modi
2016-04-14 0:31 ` alex
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