MELPA hickups

[snan]

Evaluating

(straight-use-package 'prescient)
(straight-use-package 'vertico-prescient)

borked, it couldn't install the second package.

[okamsn]

What is the error reported by Straight?

I had this issue with corfu-prescient. It was due to an older version of the prescient recipe being cached. The older recipe uses a different URL, from before the move to a Github organization. The recipe for vertico-presicent uses the new URL.

For me, I had to make Straight re-download and rebuild everything to make it use prescient.el's new recipe.

Does your install of prescient use the new URL? If not, this might be a question for the Straight maintainers.

[okamsn]

This discussion helped me find that, in my case, the problem was the URL: https://github.com/radian-software/straight.el/issues/1006

[raxod502]

Interesting, I'm not sure why installation would fail - GitHub maintains redirects from the old URL when you move a repository in the way that I did. But yes, sounds like we would need to know the error message to advise.

[snan]

This is the error message:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Could not find package vertico-prescient. Updating...")
  signal(error ("Could not find package vertico-prescient. Updating..."))
  error("Could not find package %S. Updating recipe reposit..." vertico-prescient (org-elpa melpa gnu-elpa-mirror el-get emacsmirror-mirror))
  straight--convert-recipe(vertico-prescient nil)
  straight-use-package(vertico-prescient)
  eval((straight-use-package 'vertico-prescient) nil)
  elisp--eval-last-sexp(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  funcall-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp)

[raxod502]

Have you tried updating recipe repositories as the error message mentions?

[snan]

Right, by running straight-pull-recipe-repositories. That didn't help.

[raxod502]

I'm able to find the recipe for vertico-prescient in my configuration. Here it is in MELPA: https://github.com/melpa/melpa/blob/2e40e3364a5dec38672753093c28ae97d85de189/recipes/vertico-prescient

You should check in your local ~/.emacs.d/straight/repos/melpa and verify whether this file exists, and what revision of MELPA is checked out.

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