[Haskell-cafe] Cabal update problem

[Duncan Coutts]

On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 12:21 +0100, Maciej Podgurski wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after updating to cabal-install-0.8.0/Cabal-1.8.0.2 with GHC 6.10.4, I 
> always get an error when updating the package list:
> 
>     > cabal update
>     Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
>     cabal: Codec.Compression.Zlib: premature end of compressed stream
> 
> Is there a way to fix this without rebuilding from the latest darcs repo?

This is a public service announcement:

Windows users should upgrade to cabal-install-0.8.2

Windows binary available here
http://haskell.org/cabal/download.html

I'll also be included in the upcoming release of the Haskell Platform.


Sorry about the silly bug.

Duncan