Help with cabal

Sylvain Henry sylvain at haskus.fr
Thu Apr 4 09:56:10 UTC 2019


Hi Simon,

Hackage on haskell.org is down: 
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/b99cef/hackage_downtime/

Sylvain


On 04/04/2019 11:51, Simon Peyton Jones via ghc-devs wrote:
>
> I’m setting up my GHC builds on a new machine, and this time I’m using 
> WSL (windows subsystem for Linux).
>
> Small problem.  I’ve installed cabal-3.0, and say “cabal update”.  But 
> I get
>
> Unexpected response 502for http://hackage.haskell.org/timestamp.json 
> <http://hackage.haskell.org/timestamp.json>
>
> And indeed, that’s what a web browser says for that same URL.
>
> What do to?
>
> Oddly, on another also-new Windows machine, I do exactly the same 
> thing, and with ‘cabal update –v’ I can see that it gets the same 
> error, but then moves on to try hackages.fpcomplete.com, which works.
>
> Why does the behaviour differ?  And, at least for now, how can I get 
> the first machine to look at hackage.fpcomplete.com?
>
> Thanks
>
> Simon
>
>
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