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

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: SK Kim <tttuuu888 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 05:49:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed

Merged with 21703

Found in versions 25.0.50, 25.1

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>
Cc: 24467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, SK Kim <tttuuu888 <at> gmail.com>, npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net
Subject: bug#24467: 25.1; package
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2019 17:56:31 -0500

> It's clearly a bug, and it's made worse in Emacs-27 where
> package-initialize is called automatically before reading ~/.emacs.
> IOW, I think "this" needs to be fixed before Emacs-27.1.

I just installed a patch which should reduce the impact of this problem
in Emacs-27.1: the problem still occurs if you setq package-archives
after calling package-initialize, but at least you can now setq
package-archives in your ~/.emacs rather than having to do it in your
early-init.el.


        Stefan
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