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bug#25877: 26.0.50;M-x list-packages Invalid version list error
From: |
Carlo Tambuatco |
Subject: |
bug#25877: 26.0.50;M-x list-packages Invalid version list error |
Date: |
Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:29:40 -0500 |
> On Feb 26, 2017, at 8:39 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> Carlo Tambuatco wrote:
>
>>>> ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/package hides
>>>> /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/emacs-lisp/package
>>>
>>> It seems that you aren't using the package.el that comes with Emacs.
>>
>> Not only that, it appears I've been using a pre-release version of
>> emacs all this time…I'm going to revert back to emacs 25.1 for the
>> time being, I think that should solve the problem...
>
> That's up to you. I think the actual problem you reported is due to the
> old version of package.el(c) in your site-lisp, so all you have to do to
> make it go away is delete it. Specifically, it's older than
>
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2013-11/msg00020.html
>
> and so can't handle things like "Version: 8.6+git" as contained in
> lisp/mh-e/mh-e.el in current Emacs master. If you don't delete it,
> you'll get the same problem with 25.1 and any packages with similar
> version numbers.
I reverted back to emacs 25.1 via macports, and the list-packages command now
seems to work, indicating that, for some reason, the pre-release version I had
been using had its package overshadowed by the ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/package,
but the current release macports emacs does not.
It’s just some idiosyncrasy with how macports configures their emacs releases,
I guess.