Source customization like CASK?

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Source customization like CASK?

Closed this issue 3 years ago · 17 comments

With Cask file , we can customize source with mirror temporarily,
e.g.

(source "gnu"   "http://elpa.zilongshanren.com/gnu/")
(source "melpa" "http://elpa.zilongshanren.com/melpa/")

While in Keg file, it seems not allowed. I only can change the alist in keg.el itself.
Can we fix that ?

Answer 1 · 2021-11-02T17:16:29.000Z

@ROCKTAKEY, we can support it?

Answer 2 · 2021-11-03T01:08:11.000Z

I will try it.

Answer 3 · 2021-11-03T02:23:45.000Z

@liuyinz, now you can write like this:

(source (gnu . "http://elpa.zilongshanren.com/gnu/")
        (melpa . "http://elpa.zilongshanren.com/melpa/"))

Answer 4 · 2021-11-03T05:09:46.000Z

Succeed! Thanks! @ROCKTAKEY

Answer 5 · 2021-11-03T05:24:07.000Z

@ROCKTAKEY It seems when using keg lint, keg still auto-install package-lint form elpa.gnu.org... I guess not fixed completely.

Answer 6 · 2021-11-03T05:30:25.000Z

This is design issue, I believe. keg depends on the source code, which is assumed from where it is supposed to be.
Being able to fetch a user's package dependencies from wherever they want is useful, but is there any benefit to being able to fetch keg dependencies from wherever they want...?

Answer 7 · 2021-11-03T05:30:34.000Z

anyway, reopen this issue.

Answer 8 · 2021-11-03T05:42:40.000Z

But one of reasons somebody using mirror maybe just cann't connect to melpa or gnu...
Anyway, is there any plan to support to install dependency from github directly?

Answer 9 · 2021-11-03T05:44:32.000Z

Maybe, some users cannot fetch from gnu or melpa archive due to firewall. I will add environmenral variable to set package-archives.

Answer 10 · 2021-11-03T05:47:55.000Z

Thanks both. I finally found that users needed this feature.
Just for reference, is it possible to support this feature in keg, like a proxy, to make all communication to melpa.org access the mirror?

Answer 11 · 2021-11-03T05:50:37.000Z

@ROCKTAKEY env would be the best choice.

Answer 12 · 2021-11-03T09:03:40.000Z

And I find another bug:
when I use keg install or keg lint, importing package-keyring.gpg always make a directroy : elpa/gnupg in my user-emacs-directory root dir. Whether it's a bug or designed? I think put that into .keg/28.0.60/elpa with other dependency together would be better rather than polluting user config dir. I don't use package.el in my personal configuration actually.

Answer 13 · 2021-11-03T09:32:15.000Z

It is also bug. I will fix it, too.

Answer 14 · 2021-11-03T10:22:35.000Z

@liuyinz Environmental variable KEGPACKAGEARCHIVES is now available.

KEGPACKAGEARCHIVES="((gnu . \"http://elpa.zilongshanren.com/gnu/\") (melpa . \"http://elpa.zilongshanren.com/melpa/\"))" keg

Env is more recommended than source customization in Keg file, when you want to change URL to mirror one. Source customization is recommended when you want to add another source.

Answer 15 · 2021-11-03T10:43:04.000Z

Gnupg file bug might be fixed. Is it work correctly, @liuyinz?

Answer 16 · 2021-11-03T11:17:19.000Z

@ROCKTAKEY All fixed, Thanks!

Answer 17 · 2021-11-03T11:23:22.000Z

https://github.com/conao3/keg.el#packagerecipe
When you update readme.md, don't forget to revise this typo:

package-args could accept alist and currently only recipe is ~~varid~~.