"apm list -b" and "apm i --packages-file" are incompatible with git packages

[flavio-a]

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Description

I'm trying to back up Atom installed packages with apm list -ib, and I expected the output of this command to be compatible with apm install --packages-file, but this isn't the case if there are git packages installed.

This issue is a lot like #833, but that's closed so I opened another one as stated here.

I would like to be able to do

apm list -ib > atom-packages.list

and then

apm install --packages-file atom-packages.list

but this produces an error when apm tries to install a git package.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Install a git package: apm i GhostText/GhostText-for-Atom
2. Create list file: apm list -ib > atom-packages.list
   This file now contains only the single line ghost-text@0.0.1
3. Install packages listed: apm i --packages-file atom-packages.list

Expected behavior:

I expect it to smoothly install GhostText/GhostText-for-Atom.

Actual behavior:

It throws the following error:

$ apm i --packages-file atom-packages.list
Installing ghost-text@0.0.1 to ~/.atom/packages ✗
Request for package information failed: Not Found

Versions

$ apm --version
apm  2.4.3
npm  6.2.0
node 10.2.1 x64
atom 1.40.1
python 2.7.16
git 2.20.1

The system is Lubuntu 19.04, linux kernel 5.0.0-13-generic

[rsese]

Thanks for opening a new issue and for sharing those repro steps 👍 I can reproduce on macOS 10.14.6 with Atom 1.40.1. I temporarily reset to factory defaults and then followed your steps and see the same error though I'm still not sure why my attempt to reproduce using defunkt/zen didn't reproduce (/cc #833 (comment))?

[flavio-a]

I think the difference is that zen is actually a "normal" (I don't know the right name, sorry) package, ie. is listed on atom.io (https://atom.io/packages/zen) and the repo is for development or something, so you can actually install from it (it has version tags, so it also get the correct version) but when apm list -b outputs it you get a name that is found on atom.io

On the other hand ghost-text isn't listed (https://atom.io/packages/search?q=ghost-text), so apm can't find it.

Simply speaking: I can do apm i zen and it works, while apm i ghost-text doesn't.

[Vagrantin]

Hello
I’m experiencing the same issue here.
I’m using this functionality to be able to popup quickly new machine with my usual packages but it just doesn’t work.
Is there any plan on doing something about it.
The package install tool in the UI doesn’t use apm in the background ?

Thanks for the clarifications.

[Vagrantin]

Maybe a some details of my issue would help here

My issue

I’m exporting the list of my packages with :
apm ls --installed --bare > my-packages.txt
output:

atom-beautify@0.33.4
atom-package-sync@0.4.0
atom-python-run@0.9.7
atom-wrap-in-tag@0.6.0
autocompiler-pug-jade@2.0.1
autocomplete-python@1.16.0
highlight-colors@0.9.0
language-autohotkey2@1.0.1
language-groovy@0.7.0
language-markdown@0.37.0
language-powershell@5.0.0
language-pug@0.0.22
linter-pug@2.0.14
lorem@4.0.0
markdown-pdf@2.3.3
markdown-to-html@0.5.0
markdown-writer@2.11.10
open-in-browser@0.5.2
platformio-ide-terminal@2.10.0
python-indent@1.2.6
script@3.26.0
source-preview@0.5.3
source-preview-pug@0.2.0
split-diff@1.6.1
Sublime-Style-Column-Selection@1.7.5

then try to install this list with:
apm i --package-file my-packages.txt
I’m getting after few second of process running:
Installing modules done
And I don’t have any modules installed…

My current workaround with Powershell,

Is to clean up my-packages.txt
((Get-Content -path my-packages.txt -Raw) -replace '@(.*)','') | Set-Content -Path my-packages.txt
to get this

atom-beautify
atom-package-sync
atom-python-run
atom-wrap-in-tag
autocompiler-pug-jade
autocomplete-python
highlight-colors
language-autohotkey2
language-groovy
language-markdown
language-powershell
language-pug
linter-pug
lorem
markdown-pdf
markdown-to-html
markdown-writer
open-in-browser
platformio-ide-terminal
python-indent
script
source-preview
source-preview-pug
split-diff
Sublime-Style-Column-Selection

Then install with apm i by reading line by line the content of the file

foreach($line in Get-Content $env:HOMEPATH\.atom\my-packages.txt) {
    apm i $line
}