bug#20855: Emacs wipes out custom-set-variables while setting package-selected-packages for the first time

[Artur Malabarba]

I just pushed a patch for this. Could you check if that fixes it?

2015-06-30 3:06 GMT+01:00 Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>:
> On Sat, 20 Jun 2015 01:11:22 +0000 (UTC) Barry OReilly 
> <gundaetiapo@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> BO> With Emacs master:
> BO>    commit d213cf0400ee5cad2e7f4626745fd97b942ff5e9   Date:   Thu Jun 18 
> 19:15:05 2015 -0400
> BO> but not Emacs 24.5, I see Emacs wipe out my custom-set-variables when I 
> start Emacs, as it sets package-selected-packages for the first time:
> ...
> BO> (NB: I symlink this init.el to .emacs)
> BO> These messages don't appear when starting Emacs 24.5.
> BO> Also note, my init.el calls package-initialize and package-install 
> directly. The writes to init.el occur during a call to (package-install 
> 'goto-chg), which is not installed.
>
> I just saw this today as well, I hope it's easy to fix.
>
> Ted
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