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26.0.50;M-x list-packages Invalid version list error

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From: Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 26.0.50;M-x list-packages Invalid version list error
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 03:09:31 -0500

On running M-x list-packages, emacs simply gives the

Invalid version list '(8 6 -4)' error and stops execution.

This does not cause emacs to crash, but the command does not
execute.




In GNU Emacs 26.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin16.4.0, NS appkit-1504.81 Version 10.12.3 (Build 16D32))
of 2017-02-18 built on sierra.internal.macports.net
Repository revision: a83b66923cfb71bb477d7a1f426f7426f91917da
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1504
Recent messages:
Loading /opt/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/subdirs.el (source)...done
.emacs.d/site-lisp/package.el: ‘condition-case-no-debug’ is an obsolete alias (as of 24.1); use ‘condition-case-unless-debug’ instead. [2 times]
Finding all versions of R on your system...
Sorry, no version of R could be found on your system.
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Configured using:
'configure --prefix=/opt/local --without-ns --without-dbus
--without-gconf --without-libotf --without-m17n-flt --without-gpm
--without-gnutls --with-xml2 --with-modules --infodir
/opt/local/share/info/emacs --with-ns CC=/usr/bin/clang 'CFLAGS=-pipe
-Os -arch x86_64' 'LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib
-Wl,-headerpad_max_install_names -Wl,-no_pie -arch x86_64'
CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include'

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/opt/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess/ess-site hides /opt/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/ess-site
~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/package hides /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/emacs-lisp/package

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Message #8 received at 25877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25877: 26.0.50;M-x list-packages Invalid version list error
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 18:14:49 -0500

Carlo Tambuatco wrote:

> Load-path shadows:
[...]
> ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/package hides
> /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/emacs-lisp/package

It seems that you aren't using the package.el that comes with Emacs.

Message #11 received at 25877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25877: 26.0.50;M-x list-packages Invalid version list error
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 18:44:21 -0500

> On Feb 26, 2017, at 6:14 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Carlo Tambuatco wrote:
> 
>> Load-path shadows:
> [...]
>> ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/package hides
>> /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/emacs-lisp/package
> 
> It seems that you aren't using the package.el that comes with Emacs.

Not only that, it appears I’ve been using a pre-release version of emacs all this time…I’m going to revert back to emacs 25.1 for the time being, I think that should solve the problem...

Message #14 received at 25877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 25877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25877: 26.0.50;M-x list-packages Invalid version list error
Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 20:39:11 -0500

Carlo Tambuatco wrote:

>>> ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/package hides
>>> /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/emacs-lisp/package
>> 
>> It seems that you aren't using the package.el that comes with Emacs.
>
> Not only that, it appears I've been using a pre-release version of
> emacs all this time…I'm going to revert back to emacs 25.1 for the
> time being, I think that should solve the problem...

That's up to you. I think the actual problem you reported is due to the
old version of package.el(c) in your site-lisp, so all you have to do to
make it go away is delete it. Specifically, it's older than

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2013-11/msg00020.html

and so can't handle things like "Version: 8.6+git" as contained in
lisp/mh-e/mh-e.el in current Emacs master. If you don't delete it,
you'll get the same problem with 25.1 and any packages with similar
version numbers.

Message #21 received at 25877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Carlo Tambuatco <oraclmaster <at> gmail.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 25877 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25877: 26.0.50;M-x list-packages Invalid version list error
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 09:29:40 -0500

> On Feb 26, 2017, at 8:39 PM, Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Carlo Tambuatco wrote:
> 
>>>> ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/package hides
>>>> /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app/Contents/Resources/lisp/emacs-lisp/package
>>> 
>>> It seems that you aren't using the package.el that comes with Emacs.
>> 
>> Not only that, it appears I've been using a pre-release version of
>> emacs all this time…I'm going to revert back to emacs 25.1 for the
>> time being, I think that should solve the problem...
> 
> That's up to you. I think the actual problem you reported is due to the
> old version of package.el(c) in your site-lisp, so all you have to do to
> make it go away is delete it. Specifically, it's older than
> 
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-diffs/2013-11/msg00020.html
> 
> and so can't handle things like "Version: 8.6+git" as contained in
> lisp/mh-e/mh-e.el in current Emacs master. If you don't delete it,
> you'll get the same problem with 25.1 and any packages with similar
> version numbers.

I reverted back to emacs 25.1 via macports, and the list-packages command now seems to work, indicating that, for some reason, the pre-release version I had been using had its package overshadowed by the ~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/package, but the current release macports emacs does not. 

It’s just some idiosyncrasy with how macports configures their emacs releases, I guess.

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