[racket-dev] Package Update Fails?

From: Matthew Flatt (mflatt at cs.utah.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 13 18:19:28 EDT 2013

At Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:12:12 -0400, Vincent St-Amour wrote:
> At Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:59:57 -0600,
> Matthew Flatt wrote:
> > 
> > At Tue, 13 Aug 2013 17:23:33 -0400, Vincent St-Amour wrote:
> > > I had installed Stephen's `graph' package. Then, he pushed a new
> > > version, and I tried updating my install. Here's the error I got:
> > > 
> > > 
> > >     stamourv at ahuntsic:plt$ raco pkg update graph
> > >     Inferred package scope: /home/stamourv/src/plt/racket/share/pkgs
> > 
> > I think something had gone wrong at this point, because that path looks
> > like it should have been found as "installation" scope.
> 
> Right, that's where the package was installed. I had a look at the
> source at the time, and that's where I found it.
> 
> > If you run `raco pkg show' now, what scope does it show for "graph"?
> 
> I get this now, but that's after all the steps from my previous email,
> which involved manually unlining and reinstalling the package:
> 
> 
>     Installation-wide:
>      Package               Checksum                                    Source
>      graph                 5c769639e02fac538b1034a311ea787627b8a7f6    (catalog 
> graph)

At this point, does `raco pkg update graph' still show a path for the
inferred scope?


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