[Haskell-cafe] A maintenance command of Haskell cabal packages

[Anders Persson]

https://github.com/creswick/cabal-dev/issues#issue/15

My workaround was to create a link:
ln -s ~/Library/Haskell/repo-cache ~/.cabal/packages
Cheers,
Anders

On Apr 1, 2011, at 7:38 AM, Kazu Yamamoto (山本和彦) wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>>>> cabal-dev is a wrapper around cabal. It creates the directory
>>>> "cabal-dev" in your current directory when you run commands.
>>> 
>>> Yes, I know. But when I typed "cabal-devel install" on a package
>>> directory, nothing happened.
>> 
>> Can you give a specific example? Surely *something* happened :)
> 
> I guess this happens with Haskell Platform for MacOS only. In this
> environment, .cabal/config specifies as follows:
> 
> 	remote-repo-cache: /Users/<user>/Library/Haskell/repo-cache
> 
> But cabal-dev refers to /Users/<user>/.cabal/packages. After
> "cabal-dev update" to create it, everything becomes fine to me.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> --Kazu
> 
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