[Haskell-cafe] Re: Problem with package consistency on Hackage

[Simon Marlow]

Antoine Latter wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'm not sure who to email about this, but hopefully someone on the cafe knows:
> 
> On the machine which builds the Hackage packages the 'binary' package
> is built against 'bytestring-0.9.1.2', however the package I just
> uploaded gets built against 'bytestring-0.9.1.3' which leades to
> typecheck failures (the ByteStrings I get from the 'binary' package
> are not the same as all the other ByteStrings).  See:
> 
> http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/uuid/1.0.0/logs/failure/ghc-6.8
> 
> If I wait will Hackage eventually become consistent?  How does this work?

You can re-compile parsec and binary to depend on bytestring-0.9.1.3. 
Alternatively, use cabal-install which knows how to rebuild things to avoid 
consistency problems like this.

Cheers,
	Simon