#880: Honour both --only-dependencies and --reinstall for cabal install command.
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Reporter: lndbrg | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.10.1.0
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Difficulty: easy (<4 hours) | Ghcversion:
Platform: |
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Cabal should be able to reinstall all dependencies of a package easily.
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Break your cabal install somehow, keeping the database of the installed
packages. For example remove the ~/.cabal folder.
2. Try to install a program with a dependency that you installed before
via cabal (and resided in ~/.cabal)
3. Get error message about missing files/broken package.
4. Try to reinstall the dependencies of the program you want to reinstall:
cabal install foo --reinstall --only-dependencies
Expected results:
all dependencies of foo is reinstalled.
Actual result:
Resolving dependencies...
No packages to be installed. All the requested packages are already
installed.
If you want to reinstall anyway then use the --reinstall flag.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/880>
Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/>
Hackage: Cabal and related projects
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