packages missing from melpa

[gdkrmr]

I get the following on startup, e.g. rtags is currently not on melpa:

Found 7 new package(s) to install...
--> refreshing package archive: gnu... [3/3]
--> installing package: company-rtags@c-c++... [1/7]
Package rtags is unavailable. Is the package name misspelled?
--> installing package: counsel-projectile@spacemacs-layouts... [2/7]
Package swiper is unavailable. Is the package name misspelled?

Package swiper is unavailable. Is the package name misspelled?
--> installing package: flycheck-rtags@c-c++... [3/7]
Package rtags is unavailable. Is the package name misspelled?
--> installing package: helm-rtags@c-c++... [4/7]
Package rtags is unavailable. Is the package name misspelled?
--> installing package: rtags@c-c++... [6/7]
Package rtags is unavailable. Is the package name misspelled?
--> installing package: spaceline-all-the-icons@spacemacs-modeline... [7/7]
Package spaceline-all-the-icons is unavailable. Is the package name misspelled?

[jonathanschmitz]

Seems like melpa is currently being rebuilt:

MELPA is down rebuilding all packages. Sorry for the issue. Things should be back after a full rebuild.

— MELPA (@melpa_emacs) January 24, 2018

Hopefully back up soon.

[gdkrmr]

ok, that was the reason, now only font-lock+ is missing.

--> installing package: spaceline-all-the-icons@spacemacs-modeline... [1/1]
Package font-lock+ is unavailable. Is the package name misspelled?

The following recipe wont help, because font-lock+.el specifies that it is version 0 and won't install:

     ;; (font-lock+
     ;;  :location
     ;;  (recipe :fetcher url
     ;;          :url "https://github.com/emacsmirror/emacswiki.org/blob/master/font-lock+.el"))

[dsnipe]

Melpa has finished the rebuild, but I still can't install all packages properly.
Getting this:

(Spacemacs) Error: 
An error occurred while installing eval-sexp-fu (error: (error Package ‘highlight-0’ is unavailable))
(Spacemacs) --> installing package: evil-search-highlight-persist@spacemacs-evil... [2/6]
(Spacemacs) Error: 
An error occurred while installing evil-search-highlight-persist (error: (error Package ‘highlight-0’ is unavailable))

<strip>

Spacemacs) Error: 
An error occurred while installing spaceline-all-the-icons (error: (error Package ‘font-lock+-0’ is unavailable))

[dsnipe]

Looks like some libraries disappeared from Melpa, because they have Version: 0. Probably, the only workaround is to manually copy them.

[kommen]

Same here, people starting from a fresh install getting error messages that "highlight" is unavailable.

[srid]

Probably, the only workaround is to manually copy them.

Yup, this is what I did as a workaround. Copy the missing package directories from ~/.emacs.d/elpa/25.2/develop of an existing working Spacemacs installation.

[dsnipe]

@srid this doesn't work for me unfortunately. Should I require packages manually?

[srid]

@dsnipe Did you copy over each and every missing package? Maybe try copying over the entire ~/.emacs.d/elpa/25.2/develop directory.

[dsnipe]

Unfortunately, I removed my old develop folder. I copied just highlight.el file into the directory, also tried to create highlight-0/highlight.el. No success :( So I have no idea what structure should I create.

[srid]

Feel free to try with my backup of develop.zip: http://beaunix.srid.ca/tmp/develop.zip (comes with no guarantees whatsoever).

[dsnipe]

@srid you saved my day! Thanks a lot!

[gdkrmr]

I tried to copy font-lock+.el into ~/.emacs.d/private/local and spacemacs does not find it, am I doing anything wrong? The README in that folder says to put packages there.

[Fenton-Fenton]

@srid appreciate the suggestion but this doesn't seem to have fixed the problem for me. I definitely picked the wrong day to do a fresh reinstall!

[milkypostman]

Every package at the top of this issue seems to be available. Are there specific packages that are missing?