[Haskell-cafe] Cabal message problem.

[Magicloud Magiclouds]

On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds
<magicloud.magiclouds at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
> <ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 16 December 2010 13:35, Magicloud Magiclouds
>> <magicloud.magiclouds at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>  I see this kind of information a lot when I using cabal to install
>>> package. Or sometimes same packages both exist in global and user
>>> space, which is a "shadowed by" message.
>>>  How to resolve that? Thanks.
>>>
>>> Resolving dependencies...
>>> <command line>: cannot satisfy -package Cabal-1.10.0.0:
>>>    Cabal-1.10.0.0-9ac678c7f1e4f8dd31bac0e19f600698 is unusable due to
>>> missing or recursive dependencies:
>>>      process-1.0.1.4-24e3819e5c17aaf49bfec6a0ab739420
>>>    (use -v for more information)
>>
>> This means you built Cabal-1.10.0.0 against process-1.0.1.4, but have
>> subsequently upgraded (or downgraded or uninstalled) process.  As
>> such, rebuild Cabal.
>>
>> "ghc-pkg check" will give you a list of all broken packages.
>>
>> --
>> Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
>> Ivan.Miljenovic at gmail.com
>> IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com
>>
>
> The annoying thing is, I did not upgrade Cabal. Cabal and process are
> now coming with ghc 7. But many cabal packages do not know about this,
> I am not sure if this is cabal's fault or the packages'. So when
> installing some packages by cabal, they install the same version of,
> for example, process again. Then other packages depend on Cabal will
> give out this error.
>
> --
> 竹密岂妨流水过
> 山高哪阻野云飞
>

And, sure, I could reinstall Cabal. Then things seem fine. But it is
weird. I have to have the same packages installed at two places of the
system.

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