Hi! In "shipped with GHC", did you mean Haskell Platform? If so, cabal-dev is one way to solve your problem here. You can do #1 too, but that would probably break some packages.
On 28 June 2013 10:06, Rouan van Dalen <rvda...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install the latest version of some hackage packages I use > often in GHC 7.6.3. > > However, I am having some problems with packages like [containers] and > [time], which > are shipped with GHC as global packages. > > Now when I try to install the latest version of the [time] package, I have > 2 > time packages, 1 in the global package db (the older version), and 1 in > the user package db > (the newer version). > > Now I would like subsequent installed packages to always use the latest > version of the [time] > package. But if i try to install the [plugins] package, cabal says: > > #In order, the following would be installed: > #ghc-paths-0.1.0.9 (new package) > #random-1.0.1.1 (reinstall) changes: time-1.4.1 -> 1.4.0.1 > #plugins-1.5.3.0 (new package) > > So I guess I have 2 options here: > > 1. unregister all the global packages so that I can > install the latest versions of all the global packages. > > 2. force cabal to only look at latest packages in user package db (not sure > if this is possible). > > Can anyone please point me in the right direction here. I have read about > [cabal-dev], but I am not sure if it can be used to solve my problem. > > Regards > --Rouan > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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