GNU bug report logs - #24467
adding package archives after calling package-initialize lists all their packages as "new"

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From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
To: npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Cc: 24467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, SK Kim <tttuuu888 <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#24467: 25.1; package
Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2016 15:38:30 +0200

npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net writes:

> Ah, so the packages are "new" in the sense that they come from
> archives added after package-initialize was called.

I'm not sure whether this is by design and if we would break something
if we changed it.  I think the fix would be quite trivial: simply
speaking, we would change `package-read-all-archive-contents' to iterate
over "$package-user-dir/archives/*" instead of `package-archives'.


Michael.

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