From: Martin Stemplinger <mstemplinger@gmx.de>
To: Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Re: Installing Orgmode through ELPA-tarball
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 22:21:35 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8162wbsbz4.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <81d3qokhfp.fsf@gmail.com> (Jambunathan K.'s message of "Tue, 02 Nov 2010 00:19:30 +0530")
Hallo Jambunathan K.,
> Thanks for trying out ELPA.
It looks pretty interesting and is an ideaa long overdue IMHO!
>
>
>>> 2. Use the Emacs package manager's =M-x list-packages= to browse
>>> and install the latest version.
>>
>> Failed with the error message: Failed to download `Orgmode' archive.
>>
>
> This is expected. Orgmode cannot act as ELPA repo. There are some minor
> things to be fixed. Tarball is the way to go atleast for next few days
> ...
OK
>
>>> 3. Do =M-x package-install-file=. When prompted for =Package file
>>> name=, point it to .tar file downloaded in step 2.
>>>
>> Failed with the error message: package-read-from-string: Can't read whole string
>
> Questions:
> =========
>
> What package.el you are using? I hope it is the one that is bundled in
> to Emacs and *not* the one distributed from http://tromey.com.
Yes. It says in the header
;; Author: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
;; Created: 10 Mar 2007
;; Version: 0.9
;; Keywords: tools
>
> May I ask you what version of Emacs you use and what OS you run on?
Sorry I shuld have mentioned that. It's GNU Emacs 24.0.50.1
(i386-mingw-nt6.1.7600) of 2010-10-18 on windows 7 Home Premium
>
> There is a comment in the package manager that there is a dependency on
> GNU tar. May be the tar binary that you are running is not "GNU tar
> compatible"
I use the one from gnuwin32. It says tar (GNU tar) 1.22.
>
> Just to confirm, copy the below elisp code to scratch buffer and do a
> C-x C-e with cursor before the marker '@'.
>
> What do you get?
>
I get this:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Can't read whole string")
signal(error ("Can't read whole string"))
error("Can't read whole string")
package-read-from-string("tar: Archive value 297315 is out of gid_t range 0..65535\n(define-package \"org\" \"20101101\" \"Outline-based notes management and organizer\" nil)\ntar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors\n")
(progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string (shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el"))))
eval((progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string (shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el")))))
eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
eval-last-sexp(nil)
call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
recursive-edit()
byte-code("\306\x10 @\307=\203!\0\310\311\312\"\210\313\311!\211\x1aA@)\242\314=\203!\0\310\315\312\"\210\316\v!\210\317 \210\320 !\210\f\203d\0\321ed\"\rV\203W\0eb\210\322\r\245y\210`\x1e^[db\210\322\r\245\rZy\210\x0e^[`|\210)\323c\210eb\210\324\325\326 \"\210\327\306!\210\324\330!\210\331\312\x1e\x1c\x1e\x1d\324\330!\210\212\332 \210+\331\207" [unread-command-char debugger-args x debugger-buffer noninteractive debugger-batch-max-lines -1 debug backtrace-debug 4 t backtrace-frame lambda 5 pop-to-buffer debugger-mode debugger-setup-buffer count-lines 2 "...\n" message "%s" buffer-string kill-emacs "" nil recursive-edit middlestart buffer-read-only standard-output] 4)
debug(error (error "Can't read whole string"))
signal(error ("Can't read whole string"))
error("Can't read whole string")
package-read-from-string("tar: org-20101101.tar: Cannot open: No such file or directory\ntar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now\n")
(progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string (shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el"))))
eval((progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string (shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el")))))
eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
eval-last-sexp(nil)
call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
recursive-edit()
byte-code("\306\x10 @\307=\203!\0\310\311\312\"\210\313\311!\211\x1aA@)\242\314=\203!\0\310\315\312\"\210\316\v!\210\317 \210\320 !\210\f\203d\0\321ed\"\rV\203W\0eb\210\322\r\245y\210`\x1e^[db\210\322\r\245\rZy\210\x0e^[`|\210)\323c\210eb\210\324\325\326 \"\210\327\306!\210\324\330!\210\331\312\x1e\x1c\x1e\x1d\324\330!\210\212\332 \210+\331\207" [unread-command-char debugger-args x debugger-buffer noninteractive debugger-batch-max-lines -1 debug backtrace-debug 4 t backtrace-frame lambda 5 pop-to-buffer debugger-mode debugger-setup-buffer count-lines 2 "...\n" message "%s" buffer-string kill-emacs "" nil recursive-edit middlestart buffer-read-only standard-output] 4)
debug(error (file-error "Setting current directory" "no such file or directory" "~/tmp/"))
call-process("D:/Entwicklung/emacs-24.0.50/bin/cmdproxy.exe" nil t nil "-c" "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el")
shell-command-to-string("tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el")
(package-read-from-string (shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el")))
(progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string (shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el"))))
eval((progn (setq default-directory "~/tmp/") (package-read-from-string (shell-command-to-string (concat "tar -xOf org-20101101.tar org-20101101/org-pkg.el")))))
eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
eval-last-sexp(nil)
call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)
Thanks for your support!
Regards,
Martin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-05 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-01 12:05 Installing Orgmode through ELPA-tarball Jambunathan K
2010-11-01 12:14 ` Jambunathan K
2010-11-01 13:02 ` Tom Short
2010-11-01 15:15 ` Erik Iverson
2010-11-01 15:57 ` Jambunathan K
2010-11-01 16:04 ` Jambunathan K
2010-11-01 17:40 ` Martin Stemplinger
2010-11-01 18:49 ` Jambunathan K
2010-11-01 18:56 ` Jambunathan K
2010-11-05 21:21 ` Martin Stemplinger [this message]
2010-11-06 9:31 ` ELPA + gnuwin32 tar (Issues, Help with packaging) Jambunathan K
2010-11-06 9:38 ` Jambunathan K
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