How to update?

[zenspider]

How to update?

[tarsius]

You have probably used setq instead of add-to-list to modify package-archives. These packages are available from the gnu archive, which is part of the default value of that variable.

[zenspider]

yes and no... I have this:

(dolist (repo '(("melpa"        . "http://melpa.org/packages/")
                ("melpa-stable" . "http://stable.melpa.org/packages/")
                ("gnu"          . "https://elpa.gnu.org/packages/")
                ("nongnu"       . "https://elpa.nongnu.org/nongnu/")
                ))
  (add-to-list 'package-archives repo))

so it SHOULD have been good... but what was really happening was I was getting bit by package-archives and package-archive-priorities that somehow got persisted into customize sans-gnu.

Thank you. Closing.