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I used cask package to generate a package tar file for my local fork of ensime, and added it to my package-archives using customize-option. However, I then got this backtrace when attempting to list-packages:

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (file-error "Opening input file" "no such file or directory" "/home/hackthetower/ensime-emacs/dist/archive-contents")
  insert-file-contents("/home/hackthetower/ensime-emacs/dist/archive-contents")
  package--download-one-archive(("hackthetower" . "/home/hackthetower/ensime-emacs/dist") "archive-contents")
  #[0 "\301\300\302\"\207" [("hackthetower" . "/home/hackthetower/ensime-emacs/dist") package--download-one-archive "archive-contents"] 3 "\n\n(fn)"]()
  funcall(#[0 "\301\300\302\"\207" [("hackthetower" . "/home/hackthetower/ensime-emacs/dist") package--download-one-archive "archive-contents"] 3 "\n\n(fn)"])
  package-refresh-contents()
  list-packages(nil)
  call-interactively(list-packages record nil)
  command-execute(list-packages record)
  helm-M-x(nil "list-packages")
  call-interactively(helm-M-x nil nil)
  command-execute(helm-M-x)

Indeed, this archive-contents file mentioned in the backtrace doesn't exist. How am I supposed to create it?

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  • Maybe rather than try to create a tar file that you can then install via package-install, you'd be better served to try and create directly an installed package (i.e. create directly the package's directory in ~/.emacs.d/elpa/). IOW let Cask install the package.
    – Stefan
    Nov 16, 2015 at 1:02

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That file is created by package-upload-file, but unfortunately that function has a bug in Emacs 24.4.1 that means it does not work in this scenario.

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