[arch-haskell] Cblrepo and dependencies

[Magnus Therning]

On 24 April 2015 at 12:21, SP <sp at orbitalfox.com> wrote:
> On 24/04/15 09:42, Magnus Therning wrote:
>> Personally I tend to first delete all Haskell dev packages: `pacman
>> -Rncs ghc`.
>
> Done thins. And also run `pacman -Sc` (clean cache) for good measure,
> but I got this:
>
> Cache directory: /var/cache/pacman/pkg/
> :: Do you want to remove all other packages from cache? [Y/n]
> removing old packages from cache...
> error: could not open file
> /var/cache/pacman/pkg/haskell-connection-0.2.3-5-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz:
> Unrecognized archive format
> error: missing package metadata in
> /var/cache/pacman/pkg/haskell-http-client-tls-0.2.2-12-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz.part
> error: could not open file
> /var/cache/pacman/pkg/haskell-cookie-0.4.1.3-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz:
> Unrecognized archive format
> error: could not open file
> /var/cache/pacman/pkg/haskell-yaml-0.8.9.1-3-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz:
> Unrecognized archive format
> error: could not open file
> /var/cache/pacman/pkg/haskell-crypto-numbers-0.2.3-6-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz:
> Unrecognized archive format
> [...]
>
> Goes on, but errors regarding haskell packages are that it could not
> open file. maybe something else had gone wrong.. Still researching.

My spontaneous reaction is that it looks filesystem related.  I'd
personally start with running `fsck` on the file system to see if that
clears up the issues you see above.

/M

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