[Haskell-cafe] Strange cabal failure

[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:57 PM, Jacques Carette <carette at mcmaster.ca>wrote:

> In trying to install the lens package, it eventually tries to install
> transformers-compat-0.1.1.1 which in turn depends on transformers-0.3.0.0
> -- however that asksk for
> transformers-0.3.0.0-**3006d6ea13a2c10770bffd4de7a96d**c9
> which 1) is weird, and 2) doesn't exist!'
>
> What gives?
>

The large blob at the end is an ABI hash which is computed when you install
a package. So it would appear that you had transformers-0.3.0.0 installed
and then removed it, but it's still indexed for some reason.

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