Error when installing from melpa: Error: Wrong type argument: listp, all

[Aleksander Morgado]

Hey!

I've installed magit via MELPA (emacs 27.2) and it's giving me an error, see log below. The installation ends up being usable, so I'm not sure how critical this is?

Leaving directory ‘/home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.5’

Compiling file /home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.5/async-bytecomp.el at Sat May 22 22:02:46 2021
Entering directory ‘/home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.5/’

Compiling file /home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.5/async-test.el at Sat May 22 22:02:46 2021

Compiling file /home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.5/async.el at Sat May 22 22:02:46 2021

Compiling file /home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.5/dired-async.el at Sat May 22 22:02:46 2021

Compiling file /home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/async-1.9.5/smtpmail-async.el at Sat May 22 22:02:46 2021

Compiling internal form(s) at Sat May 22 22:02:47 2021
Leaving directory ‘/home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/with-editor-3.0.2’

Compiling file /home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/with-editor-3.0.2/with-editor.el at Sat May 22 22:02:47 2021
Entering directory ‘/home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/with-editor-3.0.2/’

Compiling internal form(s) at Sat May 22 22:02:49 2021
Leaving directory ‘/home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/dash-2.18.1’

Compiling file /home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/dash-2.18.1/dash.el at Sat May 22 22:02:49 2021
Entering directory ‘/home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/dash-2.18.1/’

Compiling internal form(s) at Sat May 22 22:02:50 2021
Leaving directory ‘/home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/magit-popup-2.13.3’

Compiling file /home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/magit-popup-2.13.3/magit-popup.el at Sat May 22 22:02:50 2021
Entering directory ‘/home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/magit-popup-2.13.3/’

Compiling internal form(s) at Sat May 22 22:02:51 2021
Leaving directory ‘/home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/git-commit-2.90.1’

Compiling file /home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/git-commit-2.90.1/git-commit.el at Sat May 22 22:02:51 2021
Entering directory ‘/home/aleksander/.emacs.d/elpa/git-commit-2.90.1/’

In end of data:
git-commit.el:947:1:Warning: the function ‘magit-rev-parse’ is not known to be
    defined.

In magit-ediff-cleanup-auxiliary-buffers:
magit-ediff.el:500:8:Warning: ‘ediff-kill-bottom-toolbar’ is an obsolete
    function (as of 27.1); use ‘ignore’ instead.

In toplevel form:
magit-imenu.el:40:1:Error: Wrong type argument: listp, all

[Jonas Bernoulli]

Aleksander Morgado <aleksande...@gmail.com> writes:

> Hey!

Huhu

> I've installed magit via MELPA

You are using the "Melpa-Stable" archive but the Melpa maintainers
recommend that you use the "Melpa" (bleeding-edge) instead because many
packages are not released nearly often enough. (Case in point: Magit.)
No Melpa maintainer uses "Melpa-Stable" because it is not actually
"stable" but "different packages frozen at random points in time".

If things somehow work despite this, then you can ignore the warning and
continue using "Melpa-Stable". Otherwise you have no choice but to
switch to "Melpa".

Cheers,
Jonas