Re: GNU Elpa and Emacs 25.3

[Paul Pogonyshev]

> The https failure is Bug#36749, though I'm surprised to hear that it
> fails with plain http as well.

It fails with a different error:

    (bad-signature "archive-contents.sig")

Also get this error if I apply the workaround suggested in that bugreport.

So, the workaround doesn't help here. Can it be that the signature file

is inherited from some other run, i.e. that deleting `/tmp/elpa' is not

enough to achieve a "clean state"?

> Is your 24.5 Emacs linked against an older version of libgnutls?
> Otherwise I would expect it to have the same problem.

Quite possible.  25.3 is self-compiled, while 24.5 is installed from the OS

(Debian) repository.  I didn't manage to compile anything earlier than

25.3 due to various errors.

Paul

On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 16:33, Noam Postavsky <address@hidden> wrote:

On Sat, 25 Jan 2020 at 09:55, Paul Pogonyshev <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>     (file-error "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/archive-contents" "Bad Request")
>
> for me.  Also fails if I replace "https" with "http" in the command,
> though with a different error.

The https failure is Bug#36749, though I'm surprised to hear that it
fails with plain http as well.

> * The command with different Emacs version: 24.5, 26.3 and 28.0.50
>   (trunk).

Is your 24.5 Emacs linked against an older version of libgnutls?
Otherwise I would expect it to have the same problem.