[Haskell-cafe] cabal isn't updating local doc index after local package upgrade

[Roman Cheplyaka]

This is filed as https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1051

* Richard Cobbe <cobbe at ccs.neu.edu> [2012-11-24 12:43:55-0500]
> Haskell Platform 2012 v2.0.0, MacOS 64-bit.  (MacOS 10.8.2.)
> 
> I just used cabal to upgrade the installation of a local package I'm
> writing, and I'm still seeing the old version of the documentation in
> ~/Library/Haskell/doc/index.html.  How can I fix this?
> 
> In more detail: this machine had greek-1.0.1 installed, but I was working
> on another package that needed greek-1.1.0.  So I went into the directory
> where I keep the source for the greek package, made sure it was up-to-date,
> and ran
> 
>     cabal clean && cabal configure && cabal build && cabal install
> 
> as my normal user, not as root.  As far as I can tell, the rebuild was
> successful; cabal's output finished with
> 
>     Installing library in
>     /Users/cobbe/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.4.1/lib/greek-1.1.0/lib
>     Registering greek-1.1.0...
>     Updating documentation index /Users/cobbe/Library/Haskell/doc/index.html
> 
> However, when I open ~/Library/Haskell/doc/index.html in my browser, I
> still see the documentation for greek-1.0.  The docs for the new version
> are present, in ~/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.4.1/lib/greek-1.1.0/doc, but they
> don't appear in the main index.
> 
> Am I missing a step in the process, or is this a bug in cabal?  Is there a
> workaround?
> 
> I do have a couple of older versions of the greek package insatlled,
> because there doesn't seem to be an easy way to remove obsolete packages.
> Could they be causing problems?  If so, what's the best way to delete them?
> (I don't particularly mind having the older versions hanging around, as
> long as they're actually harmless.)
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> Richard
> 
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