[arch-haskell] Cblrepo and dependencies

SP sp at orbitalfox.com
Fri Apr 24 13:51:08 UTC 2015


On 24/04/15 13:04, Magnus Therning wrote:
> If I re-install ghc all information about installed packages is
> lost, on the ghc-level [..] When re-installing ghc these two
> databases aren't in sync anymore and using `pacman` to install
> results in errors on the `ghc-pkg` level. Basically, `pacman` won't
> re-install all dependencies, since they are already installed, but
> when registering with `ghc-pkg` it has no records of those
> dependencies.

Can we protect the system from such mistakes? I guess the ideal solution
would be to rsync the databases somehow after ghc is reinstalled.

-- 
	SP


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