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bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package fil
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings |
Date: |
Mon, 03 May 2021 21:52:38 +0300 |
> From: Ioannis Kappas <ioannis.kappas@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 3 May 2021 19:49:27 +0100
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, 48137@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > I think it's wrong for package.el to try to decode these files. It
> > should deliver the files to the disk exactly as they are received
> > through the wire. And the only safe way of doing that is to treat
> > these files as raw bytes. Where we must interpret some parts of the
> > files, we should take precautions to handle the complications related
> > to the encoding, but we should not try to decode anything.
>
> Thanks, I think there is agreement we shouldn't decode files coming
> from a remote archive. Are there still concerns though with decoding
> local .el files passed in to `package-install-file' supporting the
> windows DOS EOL case Eli?
Yes, I think we shouldn't decode _any_ files, not even the *.el
files. That includes their EOL convention. Therefore, this:
> If not, I would like to suggest a slightly
> updated patch that is targeting .el files directly as an exemption:
>
> diff --git a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
> index ecb2573cab..19ab0445b9 100644
> --- a/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
> +++ b/lisp/emacs-lisp/package.el
> @@ -2147,7 +2147,9 @@ package-install-file
> (progn
> (setq default-directory file)
> (dired-mode))
> - (insert-file-contents-literally file)
> + (if (string-match "\\.el\\'" file)
> + (insert-file-contents file)
> + (insert-file-contents-literally file))
> (when (string-match "\\.tar\\'" file) (tar-mode)))
> (package-install-from-buffer)))
is not something I can endorse, especially as it decodes much more
than just the EOL format.
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Ioannis Kappas, 2021/05/01
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Ioannis Kappas, 2021/05/01
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/05/01
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Stefan Monnier, 2021/05/01
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Ioannis Kappas, 2021/05/03
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Stefan Monnier, 2021/05/03
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/05/03
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Ioannis Kappas, 2021/05/03
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Stefan Monnier, 2021/05/03
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/05/04
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Stefan Monnier, 2021/05/03
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/05/04
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Stefan Monnier, 2021/05/04
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/05/04
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Stefan Monnier, 2021/05/04
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/05/04
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Ioannis Kappas, 2021/05/05
- bug#48137: 27.2; `package-install-file' fails when loading a package file with DOS line endings, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/05/05