Re: How does ELPA work?

[Chong Yidong]

Michael Albinus <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks. I've created debbugs-0.1.tar, based on this. I'll send it to
> you off the list, for uploading to elpa.gnu.org.

Uploaded (and accessible in packages/debbugs-0.1/ in the elpa branch).

> I've tried this as well. `package-upload-file' did work fine (after
> adjusting `package-archive-upload-base'). But `list-packages' failed
> afterwards, see *Messages*:
>
> Loading package...done
> (("tmp" . "/tmp/") ("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/";))
> Failed to download `tmp' archive.
>
> I'll see, whether I can debug into this.

Hmm, I can't seem to reproduce this.  Let me know if you track it down.

Try removing the condition-case in package-refresh-contents, and see if
you can get a backtrace.