bug#36127: 26.1, openbsd-6.5; org-9.2.3 package fails to install

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

VanL <van@scratch.space> writes:

>> On 9 Jul 2019, at 12:06, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm not quite sure I follow -- you try to install org from ELPA, but it
>> fails?  Do you get any error messages?
>
> Yes, there was an error message but I've forgotten it.
>
> What I did was list and install packages without any settings for
> package-archives in the init.el.  This was possible for which-key and
> hyperbole.  The install process failed to complete for org from
> gnu/elpa.
>
> Setting the ("org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/";) as part of
> package-archives enabled org from orgmode/elpa to install.
>
> To be clear. Without the following section at the top of init.el, I
> was able to install which-key and hyperbole but not org.
>
> ;;; package management
> (require 'package)
> (package-initialize)
> (setq package-archives '(("gnu" . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/";)
>                        ("org" . "https://orgmode.org/elpa/";)
>                        ("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/";)))

I still don't quite understand -- you should be able to install the
packages without having any of that stuff in init.el, surely?

If I say "emacs -Q" and `M-x package-list-packages', I get "org" in the
list, and I can install it.

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