Issues trying to use local version of a package in a layer

[codygman]

I had a bug I patched in haskell-mode and wanted to try it out, so I checked out the documentation on layers

After quite a bit of reading I did the following:

# clone haskell-mode
git clone [email protected]:haskell/haskell-mode.git ~/.emacs.d/private/local/haskell-mode

# reset to specific revision so this repro works for everyone
cd ~/.emacs.d/private/local/haskell-mode
git reset --hard a8e924b5138e2ebc767ad60e78d26f5fba219017

# create copy of haskell layer, then modify haskell-mode to use local package
cd ~/.emacs.d/private
cp -R ~/.emacs.d/layers/+lang/haskell/ ~/.emacs.d/private/

# modify haskell layer's packages.el to use local package of haskell-mode
cd ~/.emacs.d/private/haskell/
sed -i '22s/haskell-mode/(haskell :location local)/' packages.el

# fix bug, then recompile haskell-mode
cd ~/.emacs.d/private/local/haskell-mode/
make EMACS=$(which emacs)

restart spacemacs & open eshell

~ λ echo "main = putStrLn \"hello\"" > /tmp/hello.hs
~ λ find-file /tmp/hello.hs 
#<buffer hello.hs>

within hello.hs buffer, SPC h d m, search for haskell mode, click (haskell-mode.el). When it opens haskell-mode.el, press SPC f f

This shows me I'm opening the haskell-mode.el in:

~/.emacs.d/elpa/haskell-mode-20151113.1304/haskell-mode.el

rather than the desired:

~/.emacs.d/private/local/haskell-mode/haskell-mode.el

What is the issue? How can I debug the issue?

Thanks!

[codygman]

Just followed my repro instructions again to make sure the steps worked, they do.

[codygman]

I then tried SPC f e h and searched for package: haskell and saw this:

[ivan-m]

This to me sounds more like a spacemacs issue than a haskell-mode one.

[codygman]

@ivan-m I think it's an issue of me not using local packages correctly, failing that I think it's a spacemacs issue. It could not be a haskell-mode issue.

[ivan-m]

If it isn't a haskell-mode issue, why file it as an issue on haskell-mode?

[codygman]

Whoops, please close... Or I can in the morning.
On Nov 20, 2015 12:22 AM, "Ivan Lazar Miljenovic" [email protected]
wrote:

If it isn't a haskell-mode issue, why file it as an issue on haskell-mode?

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