[Bug/Support]: Elpaca cannot determine the repo of the package compile-angel

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Confirmation

• I have checked the documentation (README, Wiki, docstrings, etc)
• I am checking these without reading them.
• I have searched previous issues to see if my question is a duplicate.

Elpaca Version

Elpaca f83af38 HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD
installer: 0.8
emacs-version: GNU Emacs 29.4 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.24.20, cairo version 1.16.0)
of 2024-06-23
git --version: git version 2.45.2

Operating System

Ubuntu 24.10

Description

I am trying to install the package compile-agnel. I have used the following decalartion right after installing elpaca-use-package on my init.el:

(use-package compile-angel
  :ensure t
  :demand t
  :custom
  (compile-angel-verbose nil)
  :config
  (compile-angel-on-load-mode)
  (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook #'compile-angel-on-save-local-mode))

However, swhen trying to update I get this error:

compile-angel
Declared in Init file

source: Init file
full recipe:
( :package "compile-angel"
  ;; Inherited from elpaca-order-functions.
  :depth treeless
  :inherit t
  :protocol https)
dependencies:
nil
dependents: nil
statuses:
  (failed reclone fetching-remotes queued)
log:
  [2025-01-23 15:31:17] Unable to determine repo dir: (error "Cannot determine URL from recipe: (:source nil :protocol https :inherit t :depth treeless :package \"compile-angel\")")
  [2025-01-23 15:33:25] Updating
  [2025-01-23 15:33:26] Continued by: elpaca--process
  [2025-01-23 15:33:26] Fetching remotes
  [2025-01-23 15:33:26] $git fetch --all -v
  [2025-01-23 15:33:26] elpaca--fetch: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

Is there something wrong with my use-package?

[TriAttack238]

Additionally, Elpaca also can not longer determine the location of denote, even after updating the installer to 0.9.

[TriAttack238]

More worryingly, elpaca cannot find the dependency library compat.

compat
Declared in Init file

source: Init file
full recipe:
( :package "compat"
  ;; Inherited from elpaca-order-functions.
  :depth treeless
  :inherit t
  :protocol https)
dependencies:
nil
dependents: 
  embark
  magit
  magit-section
  marginalia
  with-editor
statuses:
  (failed reclone fetching-remotes queued)
log:
  [2025-01-23 15:54:40] Unable to determine repo dir: (error "Cannot determine URL from recipe: (:source nil :protocol https :inherit t :depth treeless :package \"compat\")")
  [2025-01-23 15:54:52] Updating
  [2025-01-23 15:54:52] Continued by: elpaca--process
  [2025-01-23 15:54:52] Fetching remotes
  [2025-01-23 15:54:52] $git fetch --all -v
  [2025-01-23 15:54:52] elpaca--fetch: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)
  [2025-01-23 15:54:55] Updating
  [2025-01-23 15:54:55] Continued by: elpaca--process
  [2025-01-23 15:54:55] Fetching remotes
  [2025-01-23 15:54:55] $git fetch --all -v
  [2025-01-23 15:54:55] elpaca--fetch: (wrong-type-argument stringp nil)

[progfolio]

Confirmation

• I have checked the documentation (README, Wiki, docstrings, etc)
• I am checking these without reading them.
• I have searched previous issues to see if my question is a duplicate.

Elpaca Version

Elpaca f83af38 HEAD -> master, origin/master, origin/HEAD installer: 0.8
emacs-version: GNU Emacs 29.4 (build 2, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version
3.24.20, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2024-06-23 git --version: git version 2.45.2

Operating System

Ubuntu 24.10

Description

I am trying to install the package compile-agnel. I have used the following decalartion right after installing elpaca-use-package on my init.el:

(use-package compile-angel
  :ensure t
  :demand t
  :custom
  (compile-angel-verbose nil)
  :config
  (compile-angel-on-load-mode)
  (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook #'compile-angel-on-save-local-mode))

However, swhen trying to update I get this error:

Is there something wrong with my use-package?

Yes. Your declaration does not provide enough information for Elpaca to know where to download the repository from. This is most likely due to "compile-angel" not being in Elpaca's menus because it is not published on any ELPA. That's why the elpaca-info command says:

compile-angel
Declared in Init file

Pointing the recipe to the repo source should be enough. e.g.

> (use-package compile-angel
>   :ensure (:host github :repo "jamescherti/compile-angel.el"))

Please see the manual for more ways to modify a recipe.

Does that help?

[progfolio]

More worryingly, elpaca cannot find the dependency library compat.

For this, try elpaca-update-menus.
Your menu item cache is likely missing or out of date.

[TriAttack238]

More worryingly, elpaca cannot find the dependency library compat.

For this, try elpaca-update-menus. Your menu item cache is likely missing or out of date.

This is actually the first thing I did, for MELPA, ELPA, and non-gnu ELPA. What menu does compat belong to?

[progfolio]

This is actually the first thing I did, for MELPA, ELPA, and non-gnu ELPA. What
menu does compat belong to?

GNU ELPA, which I had to recently make changes to due to an upstream outage.

source: Init file

This tells me that there is no compat recipe in your menus.
What does the following return when you evaluate it?:

(format "cache file?: %s\nin memory: %s"
  (file-exists-p (expand-file-name "gnu-elpa.eld" elpaca-cache-directory))
  (length (elpaca-menu-gnu-elpa 'index)))

[TriAttack238]

Ok, I updated ELPA again and it works now.

Regarding using a modified ensure statement for compile-angel, here is what I got when trying to use this declaration:

(use-package compile-angel
  :ensure (:host github :repo "jamescherti/compile-angel.el")
  :demand t
  :custom
  (compile-angel-verbose nil)
  :config
  (compile-angel-on-load-mode)
  (add-hook 'emacs-lisp-mode-hook #'compile-angel-on-save-local-mode))

This is by debug-trace for trying to use that version.

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-function elpaca--expand-declaration)
  elpaca--expand-declaration(`(,@elpaca-order) nil)
  byte-code("\306\307\10\"\31\306\307\n\"\33\fA\35\11\36@\310\311\312\13!\203\34\0\13\202\35\0\11\"\210\312\11!\204\355\0\313\11\314\"\210\16A\315W\2035\0\316..." [elpaca-repos-directory repo elpaca-builds-directory build elpaca-order order expand-file-name "elpaca/" add-to-list load-path file-exists-p make-directory t 28 require subr-x (debug error) pop-to-buffer-same-window "*elpaca-bootstrap*" apply call-process "git" nil "clone" append plist-get :depth format "--depth=%d" "--no-single-branch" :repo 0 "checkout" :ref "--" "-Q" "-L" "." "--batch" "--eval" "(byte-recompile-directory \".\" 0 'force)" elpaca elpaca-generate-autoloads "elpaca" message "%s" buffer-string kill-buffer error warn ...] 13)
  load("/home/sean/.emacs.d/init" noerror nomessage)
  startup--load-user-init-file(#f(compiled-function () #<bytecode 0xb90747be1d36d85>) #f(compiled-function () #<bytecode -0x1f3c61addc0b8a75>) t)
  command-line()
  normal-top-level()

[progfolio]

Are you trying to compile your init file as well? If so, that is currently unsupported.