[racket-dev] Package Update Fails?

From: Vincent St-Amour (stamourv at ccs.neu.edu)
Date: Tue Aug 13 18:23:34 EDT 2013

At Tue, 13 Aug 2013 16:19:28 -0600,
Matthew Flatt wrote:
> 
> 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?

Yes:

    stamourv at ahuntsic:plt$ raco pkg update graph
    Inferred package scope: /home/stamourv/src/plt/racket/share/pkgs
    Resolving "graph" via https://pkg.racket-lang.org
    No updates available


Vincent

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