ghc-pkg issue

[Frederik Eaton]

On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 10:18:03AM +0200, Lemmih wrote:
> On 6/26/05, Frederik Eaton <frederik at a5.repetae.net> wrote:
> > This is kind of annoying:
> > 
> > $ ghc-pkg --version
> > GHC package manager version 6.4
> > $ ghc-pkg unregister WASHHTML
> > ghc-pkg: package WASHHTML matches multiple packages: WASHHTML, WASHHTML-0.14.8
> > $ ghc-pkg describe WASHHTML
> > ghc-pkg: package WASHHTML matches multiple packages: WASHHTML, WASHHTML-0.14.8
> > $ ghc-pkg describe WASHHTML-
> > ghc-pkg: cannot parse 'WASHHTML-' as a package identifier
> > $ ghc-pkg describe WASHHTML-.
> > ghc-pkg: cannot parse 'WASHHTML-.' as a package identifier
> > $ ghc-pkg describe WASHHTML\*
> > ghc-pkg: cannot parse 'WASHHTML*' as a package identifier
> 
> How about?
> $ ghc-pkg describe WASHHTML-1.14.8

Can you explain why that would work? I haven't tried it, but the
package I'm interested in doesn't have a version number, and the
version number you're asking me te specify is different from that of
the package I'm not interested in...

Frederik

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