Straight.el: Some GNU elpa packages are unavailable

[dieggsy]

I know GNU elpa support was dropped in favor of Melpa and/or emacsmirror recently, but sometimes I want a package that shows up in M-x package-install but not in straight-use-package , e.g. dired-du. I'm not sure if this is expected or what I could do about this.

[dieggsy]

Huh, this is odd as dired-du is available through emacsmirror

[jacktasia]

@dieggsy I am not the maintainer of this project, but FWIW when using (straight-use-package 'use-package) this:

(use-package dired-du
  :ensure t
  :recipe (:host github :repo "emacsmirror/dired-du"))

works for me. Although not sure if this is the best way.

[raxod502]

This is probably another old package that was removed by @tarsius from the EmacsMirror before he stopped removing old packages, similarly to https://github.com/emacsmirror/epkgs/issues/1.

@jacktasia I think that is the best way. If you want it from GNU ELPA, you can always get it from there as well, using the following recipe:

(dired-du :type git :repo "https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/emacs/elpa.git" :files ("packages/dired-du/*.el") :local-repo "elpa")

But of course that will be slower because straight.el also has to download and check for modifications all the other packages maintained in GNU ELPA.

[dieggsy]

Ah, ok. Thanks!

[tarsius]

dired-du is in the package database and https://github.com/emacsmirror/dired-du exists.

If this is a fairly recent addition to GNU elpa, then it is missing from the master branch of the epkgs repository because I have changed the database scheme a bit and since I have done that I have only updated the next branch. However I intend to release a new versions of borg, epkg and closql very soon and once I have done that master will be fast-forwarded to next.