Philip Kaludercic <phil...@posteo.net> writes: > Zhengyi Fu <i...@fuzy.me> writes: > >> When I try recompiling all packages installed by package.el with `M-x >> package-recompile-all', I got the following error: >> >> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (permission-denied "Removing old name" >> "Permission denied" >> "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/mu4e-1.10.8/mu4e-a...") >> package-recompile(#s(package-desc :name mu4e :version (1 10 8) >> :summary "the mu mail user agent" :reqs nil :kind nil :archive nil >> :dir "/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/elpa/mu4e-1.10.8" :extras nil >> :signed nil)) >> package-recompile-all() >> funcall-interactively(package-recompile-all) >> command-execute(package-recompile-all record) >> execute-extended-command(nil "package-recompile-all" "recom all") >> funcall-interactively(execute-extended-command nil "package-recompile-all" >> "recom all") >> command-execute(execute-extended-command) >> >> This is possibly because the package `mu4e' was installed by the distro >> package manager in a path where normal users don't have write access. >> >> I think `package-recompile-all' should either skip those packages that >> are not installed by package.el or ignore such errors and continue to >> recompile other packages. > > We have installed a patch in Bug#68678 on master (the commit is from > last February, so you wouldn't see it yet on 29.4) that wraps the > `package-recompile' call in a `with-demoted-errors' block. That would > still emit a error message, but it wouldn't break the recompilation > procedure. Do you think that is enough, or should be explicitly and > additionally avoid re-compiling external packages?
Yes. That patch is enough for me. Thanks!! -- Zhengyi Fu
