[Hackage] #202: add a flag/config to make cabal use sudo/su/.. when
installing with --global
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trac at galois.com
Tue Dec 18 17:28:54 EST 2007
#202: add a flag/config to make cabal use sudo/su/.. when installing with
--global
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: cabal-install tool | Version: HEAD
Severity: normal | Keywords: global install sudo
Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.2
Platform: Linux |
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cabal install --global usually fails because of missing privileges.
sudo cabal install --global is quite messy since every intermediate file
is then owned by root, so other tasks that wouldn't need privileges at
all, now requires them to handle those files.
I propose to add the possibility to configure a command to use when
running the equivalent of "runhaskell Setup install" on the package.
So that the user can set it in ~/.cabal/config and it will always be used
when install --global is run.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/202>
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