evil-collection requires a manual upgrade

[creasyw]

The commit dee70b8 requires an updated version of evil-collection that contains the corresponding commit emacs-evil/evil-collection@33461aa. Otherwise, the Spacemacs cannot be loaded or working correctly. I have the following error in my machine

Cannot open load file: No such file or directory .emacs.d/elpa/27.2/develop/evil-collection-20211028.1851/modes/forge/evil-collection-forge

I manually upgrade the package evil-collection in list-packages and resolve the issue, but I wonder if there is a way to automatically force the dependency to upgrade.

[lebensterben]

one should always update the packages.

[lebensterben]

@jaysharm this is unrelated to Spacemacs.
either wait for a few days until the mirror is updated or open issue in the mirror's repository.

[creasyw]

@lebensterben your reply is not helpful at all.

[lebensterben]

You've already figured out you need to upgrade the packages, so how is this a bug? If this is not a bug, why do you report it here?

My comment is just to summarize the solution to the error, which you've also found out independently.

As for the question whether there's a way to automatically update packages, the answer is no. But we accept PR.

[tveyben]

I came here for the same reason as the OP.
Being new to spacemacs I was not aware (or I forgot it after having read a gazillion pages of docs?) that the packages needed to be updated manually whenever needed (like in this case).

It's clearly described how to do so in the dev docs here: https://develop.spacemacs.org/doc/DOCUMENTATION.html#update-packages so I'm posting this note to help others (or the future myself :-)

https://xkcd.com/979/