Maybe so, but it's really not a good experience for GHC/Cabal users. If aptget did this, people would bleat loudly.
Simon | -----Original Message----- | From: Ara Adkins [mailto:m...@ara.io] | Sent: 19 August 2017 00:07 | To: Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> | Cc: Ben Gamari <b...@smart-cactus.org>; ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> | Subject: Re: Alex install failure | | [You don't often get email from m...@ara.io. Learn why this is important at | http://aka.ms/LearnAboutSenderIdentification.] | | NFS can be pretty dodgy with transient files due to latency. Sometimes | the delete takes appreciable time after the command is issued so the lock | file might just be persisting. I’d try installing into a cabal sandbox on | a local drive and see if the same issue crops up. | | _ara | | > On 18 Aug 2017, at 23:43, Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com> | wrote: | > | > | Hmm. Here's a shot in the dark: is home home directory mounted via | > | NFS by any chance? | > | > Direct hit! (for the shot in the dark). Yes it's NFS mounted I think. | So what? | > | > Simon | > | > | -----Original Message----- | > | From: Ben Gamari [mailto:b...@smart-cactus.org] | > | Sent: 18 August 2017 13:05 | > | To: Simon Peyton Jones <simo...@microsoft.com>; ghc-devs <ghc- | > | d...@haskell.org> | > | Subject: Re: Alex install failure | > | | > | Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs <ghc-devs@haskell.org> writes: | > | | > | > Friends | > | > I'm trying to update my installation of alex, on Unix (Ubuntu). | > | > But I get the dump below It's complaining about a lock file being | > | > an invalid | > | argument (see highlight below). | > | > If I manually remove the file I get past that, it successfully | > | > installs tf-random, but the same thing happens on the next | > | > package. So I can install packages one at a time, but that's silly. | > | | > | Hmm. Here's a shot in the dark: is home home directory mounted via | > | NFS by any chance? | > | | > | Cheers, | > | | > | - Ben | > | > _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
