[Haskell-cafe] Re: Updating Haskell Packages through Archlinux becoming A Pain

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 00:32, Mathew de Detrich <deteego at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is an example of what happens
> Proceed with installation? [Y/n] Y
> checking package integrity...
> (1/1) checking for file conflicts
>  [##################################] 100%
> ghc-pkg: unregistering gio-0.11.1 would break the following packages:
> ltk-0.8.0.8 gtksourceview2-0.12.1 gtk-0.11.2 (use --force to override)
> error: command failed to execute correctly
> (1/1) upgrading haskell-gio
>  [##################################] 100%
> Reading package info from stdin ... done.
> In other words, pacman still syncs the package (puts the files on the
> system) and causes GHC to break, and if you do this for a big update, you
> have to manually go through and fix it all

May I suggest you post this to the arch-haskell mailinglist[1] instead?

The team managing the haskell packages on AUR are more likely to take
note of your bug report if it's posted there.

/M

[1]: http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell

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