#4060: runhaskell Setup register fails with "internal error: unexpected package
db
stack"
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Reporter: mrothe | Owner: duncan
Type: bug | Status: closed
Priority: high | Milestone: 6.12.3
Component: Compiler | Version: 6.12.2
Resolution: fixed | Keywords:
Difficulty: | Os: Linux
Testcase: | Architecture: x86_64 (amd64)
Failure: Runtime crash |
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Changes (by duncan):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => fixed
Comment:
The workaround (and indeed the sensible thing to do) is not to try and
override the target package db at register time and just use the one
selected at configure time.
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Sat May 15 22:32:04 BST 2010 Duncan Coutts <[email protected]>
* Fix register --global/--user
It is a rather silly feature and is not guaranteed to work. Having
configured and built using one set of dbs, there's no guarantee you
can register into another set. We should probably just remove it.
}}}
I'd also like to know if anyone would miss this "feature" if I removed it.
Configuring and building using one set of packages and then registering
into another set is highly dubious. We don't need to make it too easy, or
people will do it accidentally without thinking. It's still possible of
course simply by making a registraiton file and registering manually.
That or we should ban certain combinations, like configuring with --user
and registering with --global.
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