bug#21032: package.el acts pecularly

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Vaidheeswaran C <vaidheeswaran.chinnaraju@gmail.com> writes:

> (custom-set-variables
>   '(package-archives
>    (quote
>     (("gnu" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/packages/";)
>      ("ung" . "http://elpa.gnu.org/";)))))
>
> Do M-x list-packages, the messages buffer reports the following.
>
> | Error contacting: http://elpa.gnu.org/archive-contents
> | error in process filter: peculiar error: 404 [2 times]
>
> I think package.el should offer to remove (or blacklist)
> "misconfigured" archives or "disappeared" archives.  At the minimum,
> it shouldn't throw 404-s in user's face.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately weren't resolved
at the time.)

It looks like this has been fixed somewhat since this bug was reported.
It now reports:

Error retrieving: http://elpa.gnu.org/archive-contents (error http 404)

Which seems like a reasonable error message.

I don't think it would be appropriate to remove or block the URLs -- the
failure may be temporary, and it should be up to the user to remove the
archives themselves, so I'm therefore closing this bug report.

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