Auto reinstall packages for new GHC?

[Duncan Coutts]

On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 15:51 +0000, jonathanGfischoff at gmail.com wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I heard on the #haskell irc channel that there might be a way to get
> cabal to automatically update a new version of ghc with all the
> previously installed packages. Is that true? If so, I would love to
> know how.

Yes, I was referring to a feature in cabal-install for which there are
patches available (by Peter Robinson) but I have not yet got round to
reviewing and applying them.

So the answer is wait for the next release.

Duncan