On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Mark Stosberg <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:05:33 +0200 > Petr Rockai <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I made an interim beta release with a fix to the bad index segfault > > (hopefully). This should be the last beta in this release cycle, unless > further > > problems arise. In less than two weeks, we are looking at an RC and a > final > > release. Fasten your seat-belts! > > > > Yours, > > Petr. > > > > PS: Just cabal install darcs-beta to get it. Reports always welcome. > > This fails for me like the first beta did: > > $ cabal install darcs-beta > Warning: No remote package servers have been specified. Usually you would > have > one specified in the config file. > cabal: There is no package named darcs-beta > > #### > > I'm sure there's some Haskell documentation I could find read somewhere > about > how to read this, but darcs should be more user-friendly than that. It > should > contain all the instructions I need to install and use it, including > getting > cabal setup if that's the recommended way to install it, and cabal > apparently > doesn't always auto-configure default download servers for you. Normally it does. Do you recall how you installed cabal-install? I've installed cabal-install 4-5 times over the years and not run into this error before. I suspect you're in a edge case for some reason. Essentially, cabal is saying that it doesn't know where to get packages. There is currently only one public package server, and that is hackage. I think the only way to make this step more user friendly would be to provide a wrapper around cabal-install. I think that's a bad idea: 1) most cabal-install users won't run into this 2) experienced cabal-install users will be potentially confused 3) one more thing to maintain and document I'm CC'ing Duncan as he will have a better idea about this. Jason
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