Re: [O] Preventing Org from being installed by elpa

[Christian Wittern]

On 12/21/2016 10:25 PM, Karl Voit wrote:
> * Christian Wittern <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 12/21/2016 05:07 AM, Karl Voit wrote:
> > > I got the tipp of creating «~/.emacs.d/elpa/org-30000101/org-pkg.el»
> > > with:
> > >   (define-package "org" "30000101" "Dummy org mode package" 'nil)
> > >
> > > And this simulates the fulfilled dependency so that my git version
> > > of Org-mode is the only one installed (besides maybe the default one
> > > from Emacs).
> >
> > Hmm, this sounds like what I want.  However, when I try this, Emacs tells me:
> >
> > (file-error "Cannot open load file" "no such file or directory"
> > "/home/<user>/.emacs.d/elpa/org-30000101/org-autoloads")
> >    load("/home/<user>/.emacs.d/elpa/org-30000101/org-autoloads" nil t)
> >
> > Is there a way to avoid this?
>
> I'm sorry.
>
> Usually, I do keep detailed notes on things I do. But when I created
> this pseudo-package, I did not write down a detailed howto for my
> future me.
>
> But the input for this came from this mailing list. So please search
> the archive and you might get the original instructions.
OK, I found the source in this message by Alan Schmitt, to which you replied:

<quote>
On 2016-01-28 12:33, Karl Voit <address@hidden> writes:

>> I’ve had issues with this in the past (I also use org for git). To
>> make sure org is never installed with elpa, I manually install
>> (`package-install-file') this org.el file:
>>
>> #+begin_src emacs-lisp
>> ;;; org.el --- Dummy org mode package
>>
>> ;; Copyright (C) 2014 Alan Schmitt
>>
>> ;; Version: 30000101
>>
>> ()
>>
>> ;;; org.el ends here
>> #+end_src
>
> There is no "(provide 'org)" or so?

I have not found it necessary. I make sure I load org before
initializing packages, and everything works.

Alan
</quote>

Using this recipe, I get also a file org-autoloads.el produced by package.el 
and everything seems to work.

Cheers,

Christian



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