[debbugs-tracker] bug#14632: closed (24.3.50; package-install-p returns nil after package-install)

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> 24.3.50; package-install-p returns nil after package-install
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> Sun, 16 Jun 2013 10:47:47 +0200
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> After "package-install", "package-installed-p" still returns nil for
> the package that was just installed.  Consider:
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> ELISP> (package-installed-p 'nrepl)
> nil
> ELISP> (package-install (cdr (assq 'nrepl package-archive-contents)))
> nil
> ELISP> (package-installed-p 'nrepl)
> nil
> ELISP> (package-initialize)
> t
> ELISP> (package-installed-p 'nrepl)
> t
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> Also, before "package-initialize", the newly installed "nrepl" package
> still only appears as "available" in "M-x list-packages", but not as
> "installable".
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> Even worse, dependency resolution is broken, likely as a result of this
> misbehavior of "package-installed-p".  Consider "hardhat" and
> "ignoramus", where "hardhat" depends on "ignoramus".  If I explicitly
> install "ignoramus", "hardhat" cannot be installed afterwards:
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> ELISP> (package-installed-p 'ignoramus)
> nil
> ELISP> (package-installed-p 'hardhat)
> nil
> ELISP> (cdr (assq 'hardhat package-archive-contents))
> [cl-struct-package-desc hardhat
>                         (20130522 1243)
>                         "Protect against clobbering user-writable
> files [github]"
>                         ((ignoramus
>                           (0 6 2)))
>                         single "melpa" nil]
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> ELISP> (package-install (cdr (assq 'ignoramus package-archive-contents)))
> nil
> ELISP> (package-install (cdr (assq 'hardhat package-archive-contents)))
> *** Eval error ***  File exists:
> /Users/swiesner/.emacs.d/elpa/ignoramus-20130522.1245/ignoramus-pkg.el
> ELISP> (package-initialize)
> t
> ELISP> (package-installed-p 'ignoramus)
> t
> ELISP> (package-install (cdr (assq 'hardhat package-archive-contents)))
> nil
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> As you can see, when installing "hardhat", package.el still attempts
> to install ignoramus though this package is already installed.  Only
> after re-initializing package.el, the ignoramus installation is
> detected, and hardhat can be installed.
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> The packages mentioned in this mail are from the MELPA archive [1],
> simply because I hit this bug with these packages, and was too lazy to
> reproduce it with packages from the GNU ELPA archive.  I don't think
> that the archive matters, though.
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> [1]: http://melpa.milkbox.net/
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> Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:27:47 -0400
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> > After "package-install", "package-installed-p" still returns nil for
> > the package that was just installed.  Consider:
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> ELISP> (package-installed-p 'nrepl)
> > nil
> ELISP> (package-install (cdr (assq 'nrepl package-archive-contents)))
> > nil
> ELISP> (package-installed-p 'nrepl)
> > nil
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> Ah!  Now I see what this piece of code was for!
> Should be fixed now, sorry,
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>         Stefan
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