[arch-haskell] aura won't upgrade (looks like a cabal version issue)

Martin DeMello martindemello at gmail.com
Fri May 30 04:45:08 UTC 2014


On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 10:03 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>
wrote:

>
> It's easy to get confused by the package cabal-install installing a
> tool called `cabal`, while the underlying library is called Cabal.
> So, when you run `cabal --version` you are checking which version of
> cabal-install you have, and which version of Cabal *it* is using.
> However, when you build aura cabal-install isn't used (based on my
> reading of it's PKGBUILD), it uses a method that goes straight to
> Cabal and it then uses the latest version installed.
>

Ah, I did indeed get confused by that. I blew away my .cabal and .ghc and
everything installs fine now.

martin
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