#149: No Haddock index for global installs
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Reporter: Orphi | Owner: DavidWaern
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: major | Milestone:
Component: haddock | Resolution:
Keywords: |
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Comment (by MtnViewMark):
This is a hard one for several reasons:
1) The logic for doing a rebuild of the haddock index is in the cabal
executable (from the cabal-install package, not the library from Cabal).
This logic is a bit tricky and hard to recreate by hand. Cabal doesn't
give a command to invoke it directly. I have some shell scripts that
recreate it more or less. I think this logic should be moved to haddock.
2) There are really two haddock indexes that should be updated: a) The
--global index (assuming there is one) that only includes the packages
installed --global. b) The user's local index, since even though their
packages didn't change, their index usually includes all the --global
packages. (a) has the issue that it probably requires sudo privileges. (b)
leaves other users' in need of an update.
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