Subject: bug#36127: 26.1, openbsd-6.5; org-9.2.3 package fails to install

From: Stefan Kangas <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 10:07:55 +0200

VanL <[email-masked]> writes:

> > Could you try to reproduce this on Emacs 26.3 instead?
>
> Emacs 26.3 lists org (9.1.9) as built-in.  The details of the package
> shows 9.2.6 and I am able to gotothere to click the Install button.
> And, it goes to the end without erroring.

Good.

> > Or alternatively fix the local key ring in your installation as per
> > the instructions in the link above, and then try again?
>
> On Emacs 26.1 with package-check-signature set nil the steps allowed go
> as far as clicking the Install button for 9.2.6 and progress stops.  The
> Messages buffer has:
>
> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
>   Install package ‘org-9.2.6’? y
>   Setting ‘package-selected-packages’ temporarily since "emacs -q" would overwrite customizations [2 times]
>   Contacting host: elpa.gnu.org:443
>   package-install-from-archive: https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/org-9.2.6.tar: Bad Request
>
> #+END_EXAMPLE

It seems to me that the issue that remains to be fixed here is that the error
reporting should be better in this case.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas