On 06/24/2013 01:16 PM, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Mon, Jun 24, 2013 at 12:37:17PM +0100, Geoffrey Mainland wrote: >> >> It looks like "/home/gmainlan/ghc/ghc-working-build/bindisttest/install >> dir/lib/ghc-7.7.20130624/package.conf.d" gets *younger*, leading to the >> recache error. Rather odd... Any ideas why this is happening? > > That's expected: When we install xhtml, we add it to the DB, and the > cache gets updated. > > It looks like the problem is this: > > Timestamp 2013-06-24 11:02:14.669097 UTC for [...]/package.conf.d/package.cache > Timestamp 2013-06-24 11:02:14.669197 UTC for [...]/package.conf.d (NEWER > > I would guess that we assume that when we write package.cache, the > directory gets updated with the same timestamp; but actually, both use > the timestamp at which they really happen. This is of course much more > likely to be a problem if your filesystem has sub-second precision. > > If that's it, then it should be possible to fix it by explicitly setting > the modification time of the directory to match the cache when we write > the cache in ghc-pkg.
I'm using ZFS, so I suspect that this is indeed the issue. Thanks, Geoff _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
