Thanks, Luis! I noticed update-all-dists too late, not sure how I missed it. I bravely attempted (ql:update :cffi) but of course no luck, I guess because you are saying:
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dist is, among other things, a list of URLs pointing to project snapshots that are known to work well with each other.
But then the name "update-all-dists" seems off (checking my understanding). Does it not update-all-*projects* in the one current dist? Trying to answer my own question on The Google, I found this gem of a thread:
http://blog.quicklisp.org/2011/08/going-back-in-dist-time.html
...and the extensive :ql-dist package.
I guess I should not have skipped the instruction to contact Xach if I had any questions. :)
Thanks again, hk
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 5:53 AM, Luís Oliveira luismbo@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Ken Tilton kentilton@gmail.com wrote:
But I am curious, I will first try to see why uninstall did not work.
When you first install Quicklisp, it will download the latest dist. A dist is, among other things, a list of URLs pointing to project snapshots that are known to work well with each other. (This is one of the key features of Quicklisp!) Uninstalling a project then reinstalling it doesn't achieve much since Quicklisp will again grab the very same project version, as determined by the dist.
To update to the latest dist, you can use ql:update-all-dists. They're released monthly.
Cheers,
-- Luís Oliveira http://kerno.org/~luis/