Melpa: Timezone of MELPA build server can cause version number conflict with sandbox?

Created on 20 Sep 2018 · 5Comments · Source: melpa/melpa

At the moment, the version of org-web-tools in MELPA is (20180920 311). The version that gets built on my system at the moment, which is from a different commit that I just pushed to the package's repo, is (20180920 54). Here's the relevant part of package-archive-contents from the sandbox Emacs:

(org-web-tools #s(package-desc org-web-tools
                (20180920 311)
                "Display and capture web content with Org-mode"
                ((emacs
                  (25 1))
                 (org
                  (9 0))
                 (dash
                  (2 12))
                 (esxml
                  (0 3 4))
                 (s
                  (1 10 0))
                 (request
                  (0 3 0)))
                tar "melpa" nil
                ((:commit . "30315bcf6183b49352ce37d66615df3ec67f8319")
                 (:keywords "hypermedia" "outlines" "org" "web")
                 (:authors
                  ("Adam Porter" . "[email protected]"))
                 (:maintainer "Adam Porter" . "[email protected]")
                 (:url . "http://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools"))
                nil)
        #s(package-desc org-web-tools
                (20180920 54)
                "Display and capture web content with Org-mode"
                ((emacs
                  (25 1))
                 (org
                  (9 0))
                 (dash
                  (2 12))
                 (esxml
                  (0 3 4))
                 (s
                  (1 10 0))
                 (request
                  (0 3 0)))
                tar "sandbox" nil
                ((:commit . "a2b2cdfa75d50dd00f4106dfdb6b6bec19280b7d")
                 (:keywords "hypermedia" "outlines" "org" "web")
                 (:authors
                  ("Adam Porter" . "[email protected]"))
                 (:maintainer "Adam Porter" . "[email protected]")
                 (:url . "http://github.com/alphapapa/org-web-tools"))
                nil))

The problem is that I need to test the newer commit in the sandbox, but the sandbox Emacs insists on installing the older version from MELPA.

I'm guessing this is caused by the build server being in a different time zone.

I don't know of an easy way to fix or work around this problem, and it doesn't happen very often, but at least this documents it.

Thanks.

Source

alphapapa

Most helpful comment

We've just switched to UTC.

tarsius on 5 Aug 2019

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I think that may be the cause for #5809 too

seblemaguer on 17 Nov 2018

I don't know of an easy way to fix or work around this problem, and it doesn't happen very often, but at least this documents it.

It would be better to do something about it though, probably in package-build--parse-time.

tarsius on 22 Nov 2018

It would be better to do something about it though, probably in package-build--parse-time.

I guess we'd want to make the MELPA build server time zone the default in package-build too, and probably set via a variable. Then package-build--parse-time would append it to the string parsed by date-to-time...