On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:51 PM, Andres Löh <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Conal. > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Conal Elliott <[email protected]> wrote: >> Since upgrading to 7.4.1, if I 'cabal install' successfully and then 'cabal >> install' a second time without first doing a 'ghc-pkg unregister >> <package-name>', I get the following complaint: >> >> [...] > > The warning is intended to prevent you from breaking your system > without knowing that you know that you're running a potentially > dangerous cabal invocation. > > The --force-reinstalls flag should always make it build. If it > doesn't, it's a bug. > > In addition, I'm planning to make the warning a little bit less > aggressive before the release.
Before the release of what? (seeing as GHC 7.4.1 has been released) > >> The only path I've found so far that's willing to rebuild or even say >> nothing needs rebuilding (when nothing does) is to 'ghc-pkg unregister' and >> then 'cabal install' again. I'm getting the same behavior on Red Hat 5 and >> Mac OS 10.6.8, both compiled from sources. > > I'd be surprised if the OS matters. But as I said, I've not yet > encountered a situation where it wouldn't build given > --force-reinstalls. > > Cheers, > Andres > > _______________________________________________ > Libraries mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/libraries _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
