[Haskell-cafe] Cabal install fails due to recent HUnit

[Erik Hesselink]

On Monday, July 23, 2012, Simon Hengel wrote:

>
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:51:32PM -0500, Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> > > Currently you would have to do the upgrade manually, as `cabal-install
> > > cabal-install` won't work (or alternatively edit your local
> > > ~/.cabl/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar).
> >
> > Pending a fix on hackage (hopefully) I've been using `cabal copy && cabal
> > register` to grab specific packages today.
> >
> > How would I go about fixing my 00-index.tar?  I tride de-tarring,
> deleting
> > the recent versions of HUnit, and re-tarring, and when I copy that file
> in
> > cabal starts telling me no packages exist...?
>
> E.g. with vim, you can edit files in the tar file (in-place).  That is
> what I did, and it worked fine.


I use

  tar f 00-index.tar --delete Hunit/1.2.5.0/Hunit.cabal

Works with GNU tar, not with BSD/mac.

Erik
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