Hello Nick,
On Thu 18 Mar 2021 at 10:25PM +08, Nick Gasson wrote:
> The problem seems to be that it picks up the root user's local company
> package from package-user-dir in preference to the Debian package in
> package-directory-list.
>
> The patch below overrides package-user-dir to point at the Debian elpa
> source directory. Not sure if there's a better way to fix this but it
> resolves the problem for me and seems more robust.
Thank you for the report. Can you test this patch, please?
diff --git a/helper/install b/helper/install
index 1a2eb8a..af93ee4 100755
--- a/helper/install
+++ b/helper/install
@@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ echo install/${ELPA_DIR}: byte-compiling for ${FLAVOR}
(cd ${elc_dir}
set +e
${FLAVOR} --quick --batch -l package \
+ --eval "(setq package-directory-list \
+ (delete package-user-dir package-directory-list))" \
--eval "(add-to-list 'package-directory-list \"$src_dir\")" \
-f package-initialize -f batch-byte-compile *.el > Install.log 2>&1
if test $? -ne 0
--
Sean Whitton
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