Mark Stosberg <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:37:50 -0700 > Jason Dagit <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 installed "cabal-install" from here, following the instructions: > > http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html > > I don't think a ~/.cabal/config was created for me as part of that. One > of the instructions suggested that I add a symlink-bindir entry to it. > When I went to do that, I found the file was missing and I created it.
Hypothesis: when it first runs, cabal(1) creates .cabal/config with default values. Creating it with a single symlink-bindir entry before running even "cabal update" meant that those defaults never got set up. _______________________________________________ darcs-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.osuosl.org/mailman/listinfo/darcs-users
