Yes, deleting ~/Library/Racket/planet cured the problem (a folder I had never
known about until today)
Thanks for the help.
On Apr 28, 2014, at 5:33 PM, Matthew Flatt <mfl...@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> I'm able to replicate the problem in my machine, and it's a problem
> with `raco setup` not cleaning up after unlinked planet packages.
>
> Robby's instructions should work around the problem, because the
> "cache.rktd" file there is the one that's not cleaned up.
>
> At Mon, 28 Apr 2014 19:19:40 -0500, Robby Findler wrote:
>> I'm not sure where the reference is, but I guess that if you delete
>> ~/Library/Racket/planet and then re-run "make" from the top-level,
>> then you should be in good shape.
>>
>> Robby
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 28, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Matthew Butterick <m...@mbtype.com> wrote:
>>>> How are you installing Racket? From a git build or a snapshot or something
>> else?
>>>
>>>
>>> Two machines, both using a git build from a fork of plt/racket, updated
>> regularly.
>>>
>>> Turns out that deleting `info-cache.rktd` is a bad idea, because that
>>> causes
>> most of the commands to disappear from raco.
>>>
>>> So I rebuilt both installations from source.
>>>
>>> After deleting all the vestigial PLaneT development links (with `raco
>>> planet
>> unlink`) and uninstalling all my packages, I'm getting the same error on
>> both
>> machines:
>>>
>>>> raco setup: 0 rendering:
>> <pkgs>/racket-index/scribblings/main/user/start.scrbl
>>>> [... traceback ...]
>>>> raco setup: docs failure: require: PLaneT could not find the package
>> "mb/pollen:1": Server had no matching package: No package matched the
>> specified
>> criteria
>>>
>>>
>>> The start.scrbl file that threw the error calls (make-start-page). When I
>> print the docs this function is looking for, one of them is:
>>>
>>>> (library 0 /path/to/git/pollen/scribblings/pollen.scrbl (planet
>> scribblings/pollen.scrbl (mb pollen.plt 1 (= 0))))
>>>
>>>
>>> This is the source of the error, because mb pollen.plt has been unlinked,
>>> and
>> that's why "No package matched the specified criteria."
>>>
>>> But what I don't understand is why Racket has retained this vestigial
>> reference to the PLaneT module, and how I get rid of it.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any theories.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Apr 27, 2014, at 6:06 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> How are you installing Racket? From a git build or a snapshot or something
>> else?
>>>>
>>>> Robby
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:58 PM, Matthew Butterick <m...@mbtype.com> wrote:
>>>>> Hm, that is curious.
>>>>>
>>>>> Whenever I do `raco planet [anything]` I get `Unrecognized command:
>>>>> planet`.
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, when I do `raco help` I don't get `planet` as an option:
>>>>>
>>>>> All available commands:
>>>>> link manage library-collection directories
>>>>> pkg manage packages
>>>>> pollen issue Pollen command
>>>>> setup install and build libraries and documentation
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> BTW could it be a problem that `pollen` is both the name of a package and
>>>>> a
>>>>> raco command installed by that package?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 27, 2014, at 5:48 PM, Robby Findler <ro...@eecs.northwestern.edu>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The raco planet commands are still there and there are no plans to
>>>>> eliminate them.
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you say what errors you're getting?
>>>>>
>>>>> Robby
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Apr 27, 2014 at 7:40 PM, Matthew Butterick <m...@mbtype.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Do you have any links that were installed via `raco link` instead of
>>>>> `raco pkg`, such as a link from developing "pollen" before the package
>>>>> system?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes, Pollen was originally a PLaneT module, but IIRC I used `raco planet
>>>>> link` to install it (consistent with the instructions here [1])
>>>>>
>>>>> Here's how I can reproducibly shift between states:
>>>>>
>>>>> 1) Warning appears ("tool "pollen" registered twice ...")
>>>>> 2) Delete `info-cache.rktd`. Warning disappears.
>>>>> 3) Do `raco pkg remove pollen`.
>>>>> 4) Go to pollen directory and do `raco pkg install`.
>>>>> 5) Warning reappears.
>>>>>
>>>>> So maybe it's a simple matter of erasing the old PLaneT references (?) but
>>>>> I'm not sure where those lurk, and all the `raco planet ...` commands
>>>>> referenced in the docs [2] are apparently long gone.
>>>>>
>>>>> [1] http://hashcollision.org/brainfudge/
>>>>>
>>>>> [2]
>>>>>
>> http://docs.racket-lang.org/planet/index.htmlhttp://docs.racket-lang.org/planet/
>> index.html
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> At Sun, 27 Apr 2014 15:12:44 -0700, Matthew Butterick wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> When I invoke raco from the command line, it throws the warning:
>>>>>
>>>>> warning: tool "pollen" registered twice: "pollen" and
>>>>> #<path:/path/to/pollen>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> This error also appeared on racket-dev in Jul 2013. At that time Matthew
>>>>> Flatt
>>>>> said:
>>>>>
>>>>> I changed `raco setup' to use relative paths for the info-domain cache,
>>>>> but not to prune away the old absolute paths.
>>>>>
>>>>> For now, you can delete "racket/lib/info-cache.rktd", and I'll work on
>>>>> a repair to `raco setup'.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> But though I've tried deleting info-cache.rktd, the warning eventually
>>>>> returns.
>>>>>
>>>>> The problem doesn't surface with other packages. It doesn't seem to affect
>>>>> how
>>>>> anything works.
>>>>>
>>>>> It also might be a bug in this particular package, though I'm not clear
>>>>> how
>>>>> a
>>>>> package can mess with raco's registration scheme.
>>>>>
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