[Support]: Windows: failed to create MELPA repos directory (with proxy enabled).

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Elpaca Version

Elpaca 6e352ba HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD installer: 0.6 emacs-version: GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2024-01-03 git --version: git version 2.32.0.windows.2

Operating System

Windows

Description

I am trying to switch from native package.el to elpaca, since I want to install a package only available on github. I have added the installer script to the begining of the init.el. I have also used the elpaca-nosymlink-mode. Then I have enabled the use-package integration.

After I restart my Emacs, the elpaca-log buffer shows that several packages fail to install. consult, org-modern, vertico among them, all come from the same author. The failing reasons listed in the info column are the same, except the package name, for these three packages:

elpaca--queue-dependencies: (error "Unable to find main elisp file for \"vertico\"")

My config for vertico is:

(use-package vertico
  :demand t
  :config
  (setq read-extended-command-predicate #'command-completion-default-include-p
        enable-recursive-minibuffers t))
(elpaca nil (vertico-mode))

I have checked the files in ~/.emacs.d/elpaca/repos/vertico and there is only a .git directory.

I have tried to add the following code in the use-package declaration:

  :elpaca (vertico :type git :host github :repo "minad/vertico"
                     :files (:defaults "extensions/*"))

but it does not improve anything.

There is another package, lsp-mode, failed for the same reason. And there are some other failed packages due to other reasons. I guess we should discuss about them in a separate issue in the future.

Please share the output of M-x elpaca-info for vertico.

there are some other failed packages due to other reasons. I guess we should discuss about them in a separate issue in the future.

Yes, please.

Hi, I have tested the same configuration on a Linux machine and everything works fine. It might be a platform issue. However, on another Windows machine, when I try to replicate the issue, I can not make elpaca work.

 Package Status Info Time ▼ 
elpaca                         failed               No recipe: (file-missing "Opening directory" "No such file or directory" "e:/emacs_home/.emacs.d/elpaca/cache/melpa/recipes/") 145.383414
elpaca-use-package             failed               No recipe: (file-missing "Opening directory" "No such file or directory" "e:/emacs_home/.emacs.d/elpaca/cache/melpa/recipes/") 310.751292

It looks like a network issue, though I do have a proxy which can make me connect to github. I can clone repositories on the command line.

If you're able to, please evaluate the following test form on that Window's machine in your *scratch* buffer:

(require 'elpaca-test)
(elpaca-test)

A result buffer should pop up after the test has finished. Please copy the contents here.

Test Case

[How to run this test?](https://github.com/progfolio/elpaca/wiki/Troubleshooting#the-elpaca-test-macro) ```emacs-lisp (elpaca-test) ```

Host Env

elpaca	6e352ba HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD
installer	0.6
emacs	GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2023-12-10
git	git version 2.33.1.windows.1

Output

```emacs-lisp Elpaca menu item cache discarded due to version change. INFO Scraping files for loaddefs... INFO Scraping files for loaddefs...done GEN ../elpaca-autoloads.el Cloning into 'c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca'... Your branch is up to date with 'origin/master'. Checking c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/elpaca-info.el... Elpaca menu item cache discarded due to version change. Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/elpaca-log.el... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/elpaca-manager.el... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/elpaca-menu-elpa.el... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/elpaca-menu-melpa.el... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/elpaca-menu-org.el... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/elpaca-process.el... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/elpaca-test.el... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/elpaca-ui.el... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/elpaca.el... Checking c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/doc... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/doc/early-init.el... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/doc/init.el... Checking c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/extensions... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/extensions/elpaca-use-package.el... Checking c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/images... Checking c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/test... Compiling c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/repos/elpaca/test/elpaca-test.el... Done (Total of 11 files compiled, 3 skipped in 4 directories) Downloading MELPA recipes... Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Unable to clone MELPA: (1 nil \"fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/melpa/melpa.git/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443 after 21078 ms: Timed out\n\")") error("Unable to clone MELPA: %S" (1 nil "fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/melpa/melpa.git/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443 after 21078 ms: Timed out\n")) elpaca-menu-melpa--clone("c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/cache/melpa/") elpaca-menu-melpa(index) elpaca--menu-items(t) elpaca-menu-item(elpaca nil) elpaca-recipe((elpaca :repo "https://github.com/progfolio/elpaca.git" :ref nil :files (:defaults "elpaca-test.el" (:exclude "extensions")) :build (:not elpaca--activate-package))) elpaca<-create((elpaca :repo "https://github.com/progfolio/elpaca.git" :ref nil :files (:defaults "elpaca-test.el" (:exclude "extensions")) :build (:not elpaca--activate-package))) elpaca--queue((elpaca :repo "https://github.com/progfolio/elpaca.git" :ref nil :files (:defaults "elpaca-test.el" (:exclude "extensions")) :build (:not elpaca--activate-package)) (elpaca-q init 0 0 incomplete (26036 25531 577203 0) nil nil nil)) (progn (elpaca--queue order-0 q-2)) (if order-0 (progn (elpaca--queue order-0 q-2))) (let* ((order-0 elpaca-order) (id-1 (elpaca--first order-0)) (q-2 (or (and after-init-time (elpaca--q (elpaca-get id-1))) (car elpaca--queues)))) (if order-0 (progn (elpaca--queue order-0 q-2))) (if after-init-time (progn (let* ((e (and t (elpaca-get id-1)))) (if e (progn (elpaca--maybe-log) (elpaca--unprocess e) (let* (...) (let* ... ...))) nil)) (if (member this-command '(eval-last-sexp eval-defun)) (progn (elpaca-process-queues))) (if (member this-command '(eval-region eval-buffer org-ctrl-c-ctrl-c)) (progn (if elpaca--interactive-timer (progn (cancel-timer elpaca--interactive-timer))) (run-at-time elpaca-interactive-interval nil #'elpaca-process-queues))))) nil) load-with-code-conversion("c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/init.el" "c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/init.el" nil t) command-line-1(("--eval" "(setq debug-on-error t after-init-time nil)" "--eval" "(setq user-emacs-directory \"c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC\")" "--eval" "(run-hooks 'before-init-hook)" "-l" "./init.el" "--eval" "(setq after-init-time (current-time))" "--eval" "(run-hooks 'after-init-hook)" "--eval" "(run-hooks 'emacs-startup-hook)" "--eval" "(message \"\n Test Env\n\")" "--eval" "(elpaca-version 'message)")) command-line() normal-top-level() ```

Looks like elpaca can't establish a connection to melpa repository? However, I have tested on my PowerShell terminal:

PS E:\workplace> git clone https://github.com/melpa/melpa.git
Cloning into 'melpa'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 49053, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (3120/3120), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (200/200), done.
remote: Total 49053 (delta 2959), reused 3047 (delta 2917), pack-reused 45933
Receiving objects: 100% (49053/49053), 12.67 MiB | 8.44 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (25764/25764), done.
Updating files: 100% (5760/5760), done.

Not sure why this is happening.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Unable to clone MELPA: (1 nil \"fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/melpa/melpa.git/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443 after 21078 ms: Timed out\n\")") error("Unable to clone MELPA: %S" (1 nil "fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/melpa/melpa.git/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443 after 21078 ms: Timed out\n")) elpaca-menu-melpa--clone("c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.4voyFC/elpaca/cache/melpa/")

Looks like elpaca can't establish a connection to melpa repository?

Given the error above, yes, that is the case. The connection is timing out.

However, I have tested on my PowerShell terminal:

How about trying to clone it from within Emacs by evaluating the following form in your *scratch* buffer:

(with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create "*melpa-clone-test*")
  (erase-buffer)
  (let ((default-directory (temporary-file-directory)))
    (call-process "git" nil t t "clone" "https://github.com/melpa/melpa.git/"))
  (display-buffer (current-buffer)))

It should display a buffer, *melpa-clone-test*, which will show the output of the git process. Share the output of that buffer once the process terminates.

You mentioned you've got a proxy set up. I imagine that may be in play here. While PowerShell works, maybe Emacs is having trouble making a network connection. Another option would be to disable the proxy to see if it Emacs is able to clone without that.

The output of the melpa-clone-test buffer:

Cloning into 'melpa'...
Updating files:  73% (4206/5760)
Updating files:  74% (4263/5760)
Updating files:  75% (4320/5760)
Updating files:  76% (4378/5760)
Updating files:  77% (4436/5760)
Updating files:  78% (4493/5760)
Updating files:  79% (4551/5760)
Updating files:  80% (4608/5760)
Updating files:  81% (4666/5760)
Updating files:  82% (4724/5760)
Updating files:  83% (4781/5760)
Updating files:  84% (4839/5760)
Updating files:  85% (4896/5760)
Updating files:  86% (4954/5760)
Updating files:  87% (5012/5760)
Updating files:  88% (5069/5760)
Updating files:  89% (5127/5760)
Updating files:  90% (5184/5760)
Updating files:  91% (5242/5760)
Updating files:  92% (5300/5760)
Updating files:  93% (5357/5760)
Updating files:  94% (5415/5760)
Updating files:  95% (5472/5760)
Updating files:  96% (5530/5760)
Updating files:  97% (5588/5760)
Updating files:  98% (5645/5760)
Updating files:  99% (5703/5760)
Updating files: 100% (5760/5760)
Updating files: 100% (5760/5760), done.

In my current network environment, when using package.el, if the proxy is absent, then Emacs may not be able to connect to melpa, elpa, etc..

Disabling the proxy and executing (elpaca-test) produce the following:

Test Case

[How to run this test?](https://github.com/progfolio/elpaca/wiki/Troubleshooting#the-elpaca-test-macro) ```emacs-lisp (elpaca-test) ```

Host Env

elpaca	6e352ba HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD
installer	0.6
emacs	GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 2, x86_64-w64-mingw32) of 2023-12-10
git	git version 2.33.1.windows.1

Output

```emacs-lisp Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Cloning into 'c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.VAQMNf/elpaca/repos/elpaca'...\nfatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/progfolio/elpaca.git/': Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 7078 after 2088 ms: Connection refused\n") error("%s" "Cloning into 'c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.VAQMNf/elpaca/repos/elpaca'...\nfatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/progfolio/elpaca.git/': Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 7078 after 2088 ms: Connection refused\n") (if s (progn (message "%s" (buffer-string)) (kill-buffer buffer)) (error "%s" (save-current-buffer (set-buffer buffer) (buffer-string)))) (let* ((buffer (and t (pop-to-buffer-same-window "*elpaca-bootstrap*"))) (s (and buffer (= 0 (call-process "git" nil buffer t "clone" (plist-get order :repo) repo)))) (s (and s (= 0 (call-process "git" nil buffer t "checkout" (or (plist-get order :ref) "--"))))) (emacs (and s (concat invocation-directory invocation-name))) (s (and emacs (= 0 (call-process emacs nil buffer nil "-Q" "-L" "." "--batch" "--eval" "(byte-recompile-directory \".\" 0 'force)")))) (s (and s (require 'elpaca))) (s (and s (elpaca-generate-autoloads "elpaca" repo)))) (if s (progn (message "%s" (buffer-string)) (kill-buffer buffer)) (error "%s" (save-current-buffer (set-buffer buffer) (buffer-string))))) (condition-case err (let* ((buffer (and t (pop-to-buffer-same-window "*elpaca-bootstrap*"))) (s (and buffer (= 0 (call-process "git" nil buffer t "clone" (plist-get order :repo) repo)))) (s (and s (= 0 (call-process "git" nil buffer t "checkout" (or ... "--"))))) (emacs (and s (concat invocation-directory invocation-name))) (s (and emacs (= 0 (call-process emacs nil buffer nil "-Q" "-L" "." "--batch" "--eval" "(byte-recompile-directory \".\" 0 'force)")))) (s (and s (require 'elpaca))) (s (and s (elpaca-generate-autoloads "elpaca" repo)))) (if s (progn (message "%s" (buffer-string)) (kill-buffer buffer)) (error "%s" (save-current-buffer (set-buffer buffer) (buffer-string))))) ((debug error) (warn "%s" err) (delete-directory repo 'recursive))) (if (file-exists-p repo) nil (make-directory repo t) (if (< emacs-major-version 28) (progn (require 'subr-x))) (condition-case err (let* ((buffer (and t (pop-to-buffer-same-window "*elpaca-bootstrap*"))) (s (and buffer (= 0 (call-process "git" nil buffer t "clone" ... repo)))) (s (and s (= 0 (call-process "git" nil buffer t "checkout" ...)))) (emacs (and s (concat invocation-directory invocation-name))) (s (and emacs (= 0 (call-process emacs nil buffer nil "-Q" "-L" "." "--batch" "--eval" "(byte-recompile-directory \".\" 0 'force)")))) (s (and s (require 'elpaca))) (s (and s (elpaca-generate-autoloads "elpaca" repo)))) (if s (progn (message "%s" (buffer-string)) (kill-buffer buffer)) (error "%s" (save-current-buffer (set-buffer buffer) (buffer-string))))) ((debug error) (warn "%s" err) (delete-directory repo 'recursive)))) (let* ((repo (expand-file-name "elpaca/" elpaca-repos-directory)) (build (expand-file-name "elpaca/" elpaca-builds-directory)) (order (cdr elpaca-order)) (default-directory repo)) (add-to-list 'load-path (if (file-exists-p build) build repo)) (if (file-exists-p repo) nil (make-directory repo t) (if (< emacs-major-version 28) (progn (require 'subr-x))) (condition-case err (let* ((buffer (and t (pop-to-buffer-same-window "*elpaca-bootstrap*"))) (s (and buffer (= 0 ...))) (s (and s (= 0 ...))) (emacs (and s (concat invocation-directory invocation-name))) (s (and emacs (= 0 ...))) (s (and s (require ...))) (s (and s (elpaca-generate-autoloads "elpaca" repo)))) (if s (progn (message "%s" (buffer-string)) (kill-buffer buffer)) (error "%s" (save-current-buffer (set-buffer buffer) (buffer-string))))) ((debug error) (warn "%s" err) (delete-directory repo 'recursive)))) (if (require 'elpaca-autoloads nil t) nil (require 'elpaca) (elpaca-generate-autoloads "elpaca" repo) (load "./elpaca-autoloads"))) load-with-code-conversion("c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.VAQMNf/init.el" "c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.VAQMNf/init.el" nil t) command-line-1(("--eval" "(setq debug-on-error t after-init-time nil)" "--eval" "(setq user-emacs-directory \"c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.VAQMNf\")" "--eval" "(run-hooks 'before-init-hook)" "-l" "./init.el" "--eval" "(setq after-init-time (current-time))" "--eval" "(run-hooks 'after-init-hook)" "--eval" "(run-hooks 'emacs-startup-hook)" "--eval" "(message \"\n Test Env\n\")" "--eval" "(elpaca-version 'message)")) command-line() normal-top-level() ```

The output of the melpa-clone-test buffer

Looks like it cloned successfully there.

Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 7078 after 2088 ms: Connection refused

And it looks like disabling your proxy didn't work.

I've pushed a slight change to a testing branch. Try this out:

(elpaca-test :ref "fix/247")

Failed to connect to 127.0.0.1 port 7078 after 2088 ms: Connection refused

And it looks like disabling your proxy didn't work.

I made a mistake here, I simply disabled the proxy but I forgot to change the proxy settings of git, so git still tries to connect to the proxy and failed. According to my experience, the proxy is necessary if I want a stable connection to github, that's why I establish it. Disabling it makes using git on the command line almost impossible.

I've pushed a slight change to a testing branch. Try this out:
(elpaca-test :ref "fix/247")

Can I evaluate this directly? Do I need to pull some changes or do something else? If not, evaluating this yields a lisp error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "raw.githubusercontent.com/443 getaddrinfo error 11004")
  open-network-stream("raw.githubusercontent.com" #<buffer  *url-http-temp*> "raw.githubusercontent.com" 443 :nowait nil :tls-parameters nil :coding nil)
  open-gnutls-stream("raw.githubusercontent.com" #<buffer  *url-http-temp*> "raw.githubusercontent.com" 443 (:type tls :nowait nil))
  network-stream-open-tls("raw.githubusercontent.com" #<buffer  *url-http-temp*> "raw.githubusercontent.com" 443 (:type tls :nowait nil))
  open-network-stream("raw.githubusercontent.com" #<buffer  *url-http-temp*> "raw.githubusercontent.com" 443 :type tls :nowait nil)
  url-open-stream("raw.githubusercontent.com" #<buffer  *url-http-temp*> "raw.githubusercontent.com" 443 tls)
  url-http-find-free-connection("raw.githubusercontent.com" 443 tls)
  url-http(#s(url :type "https" :user nil :password nil :host "raw.githubusercontent.com" :portspec nil :filename "/progfolio/elpaca/fix/274/doc/init.el" :target nil :attributes nil :fullness t :silent silent :use-cookies nil :asynchronous nil) #f(compiled-function (&rest args) #<bytecode 0x147d28beaf8f2aef>) (nil) nil tls)
  url-https(#s(url :type "https" :user nil :password nil :host "raw.githubusercontent.com" :portspec nil :filename "/progfolio/elpaca/fix/274/doc/init.el" :target nil :attributes nil :fullness t :silent silent :use-cookies nil :asynchronous nil) #f(compiled-function (&rest args) #<bytecode 0x147d28beaf8f2aef>) (nil))
  url-retrieve-internal("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/progfolio/elpaca/fix/274/doc/init.el" #f(compiled-function (&rest args) #<bytecode 0x147d28beaf8f2aef>) (nil) silent inhibit-cookies)
  url-retrieve("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/progfolio/elpaca/fix/274/doc/init.el" #f(compiled-function (&rest args) #<bytecode 0x147d28beaf8f2aef>) nil silent inhibit-cookies)
  url-retrieve-synchronously("https://raw.githubusercontent.com/progfolio/elpaca/fix/274/doc/init.el" silent inhibit-cookies)
  elpaca-test--upstream-init("fix/274")
  elpaca--test-write-init(nil "fix/274" nil)
  (let* ((default-directory "c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.PM7i7R") (procname (format "elpaca-test-%s" default-directory)) (buffer (generate-new-buffer procname))) (if (file-exists-p default-directory) nil (make-directory default-directory 'parents)) (elpaca--test-write-init nil '"fix/274" 'nil) (if buffer (progn (elpaca-test--format-output-buffer buffer "(elpaca-test\n  :ref \"fix/274\")\n"))) (elpaca-test--make-process procname buffer (elpaca-test--command 'nil t nil 'nil) (cons ':computed-dir (cons default-directory '(:ref ("fix/274"))))) (elpaca-test--announce nil "fix/274"))
  (progn (let* ((default-directory "c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.PM7i7R") (procname (format "elpaca-test-%s" default-directory)) (buffer (generate-new-buffer procname))) (if (file-exists-p default-directory) nil (make-directory default-directory 'parents)) (elpaca--test-write-init nil '"fix/274" 'nil) (if buffer (progn (elpaca-test--format-output-buffer buffer "(elpaca-test\n  :ref \"fix/274\")\n"))) (elpaca-test--make-process procname buffer (elpaca-test--command 'nil t nil 'nil) (cons ':computed-dir (cons default-directory '(:ref ("fix/274"))))) (elpaca-test--announce nil "fix/274")))
  eval((progn (let* ((default-directory "c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.PM7i7R") (procname (format "elpaca-test-%s" default-directory)) (buffer (generate-new-buffer procname))) (if (file-exists-p default-directory) nil (make-directory default-directory 'parents)) (elpaca--test-write-init nil '"fix/274" 'nil) (if buffer (progn (elpaca-test--format-output-buffer buffer "(elpaca-test\n  :ref \"fix/274\")\n"))) (elpaca-test--make-process procname buffer (elpaca-test--command 'nil t nil 'nil) (cons ':computed-dir (cons default-directory '(:ref ...)))) (elpaca-test--announce nil "fix/274"))) t)
  elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
  command-execute(eval-last-sexp)

I searched for the error number and there is a suggestion that adding

199.232.68.133 raw.githubusercontent.com

to the hosts may fix my problem. I tried and it did work. However, there is a new error:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Unable to download \"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/progfolio/elpaca/fix/274/doc/init.el\" 404")
  error("Unable to download %S %S" "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/progfolio/elpaca/fix/274/doc/init.el" 404)
  elpaca-test--upstream-init("fix/274")
  elpaca--test-write-init(nil "fix/274" nil)
  (let* ((default-directory "c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.tKLoZ0") (procname (format "elpaca-test-%s" default-directory)) (buffer (generate-new-buffer procname))) (if (file-exists-p default-directory) nil (make-directory default-directory 'parents)) (elpaca--test-write-init nil '"fix/274" 'nil) (if buffer (progn (elpaca-test--format-output-buffer buffer "(elpaca-test\n  :ref \"fix/274\")\n"))) (elpaca-test--make-process procname buffer (elpaca-test--command 'nil t nil 'nil) (cons ':computed-dir (cons default-directory '(:ref ("fix/274"))))) (elpaca-test--announce nil "fix/274"))
  (progn (let* ((default-directory "c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.tKLoZ0") (procname (format "elpaca-test-%s" default-directory)) (buffer (generate-new-buffer procname))) (if (file-exists-p default-directory) nil (make-directory default-directory 'parents)) (elpaca--test-write-init nil '"fix/274" 'nil) (if buffer (progn (elpaca-test--format-output-buffer buffer "(elpaca-test\n  :ref \"fix/274\")\n"))) (elpaca-test--make-process procname buffer (elpaca-test--command 'nil t nil 'nil) (cons ':computed-dir (cons default-directory '(:ref ("fix/274"))))) (elpaca-test--announce nil "fix/274")))
  eval((progn (let* ((default-directory "c:/Users/drcxd/AppData/Local/Temp/elpaca.tKLoZ0") (procname (format "elpaca-test-%s" default-directory)) (buffer (generate-new-buffer procname))) (if (file-exists-p default-directory) nil (make-directory default-directory 'parents)) (elpaca--test-write-init nil '"fix/274" 'nil) (if buffer (progn (elpaca-test--format-output-buffer buffer "(elpaca-test\n  :ref \"fix/274\")\n"))) (elpaca-test--make-process procname buffer (elpaca-test--command 'nil t nil 'nil) (cons ':computed-dir (cons default-directory '(:ref ...)))) (elpaca-test--announce nil "fix/274"))) t)
  elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
  command-execute(eval-last-sexp)

I guess my OS and network environment are also responsible for this problem. However, I do not think manually add something to hosts can become part of the solution of the problem. I mean, I may forget about it when I am on another machine. Due to my lack of understanding of computer network, I do not know if this (adding hosts configuration) can be circumvented programmatically.

I am trying to use elpaca because I want to install a package that is only available on github. Actually, I am content with my package.el workflow before I need such a package. If using elpaca costs too much (considering my network environment), I may be satisfied just using package.el plus git submodule.

I am glad to use elpaca (if possible) and if you still want to research on this issue, I am also glad to help you do the tests and give feedback. However, if you do not want to spend time on it due to its particularity, I totally understand and agree with you.

Thank you!

I've pushed a slight change to a testing branch. Try this out:

emacs-lisp (elpaca-test :ref "fix/247")

Can I evaluate this directly? Do I need to pull some changes or do something else? If not, evaluating this yields a lisp error:
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "raw.githubusercontent.com/443 getaddrinfo error 11004")
...

Yes, the test should "just work" if evaluated in the *scratch* buffer. It looks like a different networking issue, though.

I searched for the error number and there is a suggestion that adding

I guess my OS and network environment are also responsible for this problem.

Yes, unfortunately I'm not able to reproduce this on my end.

However, I do not think manually add something to hosts can become part of the solution of the problem. I mean, I may forget about it when I am on another machine. Due to my lack of understanding of computer network, I do not know if this (adding hosts configuration) can be circumvented programmatically.

I am trying to use elpaca because I want to install a package that is only available on github. Actually, I am content with my package.el workflow before I need such a package. If using elpaca costs too much (considering my network environment), I may be satisfied just using package.el plus git submodule.

I am glad to use elpaca (if possible) and if you still want to research on this issue, I am also glad to help you do the tests and give feedback. However, if you do not want to spend time on it due to its particularity, I totally understand and agree with you.

Thank you!

I say go with whatever is easiest. If package.el is working with your network configuration, I'd use that. I appreciate you testing, and will keep this noted here in case anyone else runs into a similar issue. Thanks.

progfolio / elpaca