README.md

MyELPA (Personal Emacs Package Mirror)

Due to a series of unfortunate events, installing packages from MELPA doesn't work on my work Emacs instance (Emacs doesn't use openssl and throws TLS errors, can't build the newest version of Emacs on our OS, etc).

Here is the collection of *.el package files (including dependencies) combined into archives which can be manually installed into ~/.emacs.d/packages by cloning this repo or by importing this mirror to your list of package-archives to install via the package manager.

Usage

Use Mirror

To gain access to this mirror, add the mirror reference to your package-archives in your ~/.emacs file, a basic config may look like this:

(require 'package)

(setq package-archives '(("melpa" . "https://melpa.org/packages/")
                         ("myelpa" . "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Justintime50/myelpa/main/src/")))

(package-initialize)

Then run the following to refresh your package list with the packages from the mirror:

M-x package-refresh-contents

Create and Update the Mirror

Use the following tool to craft the mirror locally (must be done from an Emacs instance that can install packages - as is the case on my personal machine.)

Tool GitHub: https://github.com/redguardtoo/elpa-mirror

mkdir -p ~/myelpa && emacs --batch -l ~/.emacs -l ~/.emacs.d/elpa-mirror.el --eval='(setq elpamr-default-output-directory "~/myelpa")' --eval='(elpamr-create-mirror-for-installed)'