Package: haskell-cabal Severity: normal From: Frederik Eaton Subject: cabal installation
It would be nice if cabal would unlink destination files before installing over them, rather than just calling "copyFile". It appears that when "copyFile" finds that a destination file already exists, rather than removing it, it tries to open and truncate it, which leads cabal to fail with the following error message when a new version of a running program is installed: *** Exception: bar: copyFile: resource busy (Text file busy) The commonly-used 'install' command does not suffer from this bug. Frederik -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.21 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
