Safe Haskell validate failure

[Daniel Fischer]

On Thursday 11 August 2011, 19:23:28, David Terei wrote:
> Hmmm thats annoying. So the issue is that you need to have the base
> package trusted. Originally packages were untrusted by default. I
> changed that so that packages are now trusted by default. However that
> change to Cabal didn't make it into 7.2.1. So you need to do this for
> your bootstrapping 7.2.1 compiler:
> 
> $ ghc-pkg trust base

Yeah, figured that after reading about how safe haskell is supposed to 
work.

> 
> After that it should work fine. I'll look into updating the GHC build
> scripts to avoid this.

I think it's reasonable for the build system to -trust base etc on the 
command line.