[Haskell-cafe] ghc 7.10.1-rc1 ghc no longer supports single-file style package databases (dist/package.conf.inplace) use 'ghc-pkg init' to create the database with the correct format.

[Konstantine Rybnikov]

Yes, it seems installing latest cabal under ghc 7.8 first and upgrading to
7.10 afterwards is the way to go.

Thanks!

On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 2:09 AM, Doug Burke <dburke.gw at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I ended up installing both Cabal and cabal-install (from GitHub) using ghc
> 7.8.4. After that things seemed to get better with ghc 7.10 RC1 (which was
> using my newly created cabal-install command-line tool with the Cabal libs
> from ghc 7.10). Or at least, I think that's how I got it working.
>
> HTH,
> Doug
>
>
> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 7:05 PM, Konstantine Rybnikov <k-bx at k-bx.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Installing dependencies fails with very same error, unfortunately.
>>
>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Antoine Latter <aslatter at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I did the following to work around this:
>>>
>>> I cloned this branch on GitHub:
>>> https://github.com/haskell/cabal/tree/1.22
>>>
>>> Then, in the cabal-install folder I built the 'cabal-install' binary
>>> *without* using the existing version of cabal-install, then used the newly
>>> built 'cabal-install' to actually install the new 'cabal-install':
>>>
>>> cd <folder which has cabal-install>
>>> ghc Setup.hs
>>> ./Setup.hs configure
>>> ./Seup.hs build
>>> dist/build/cabal/cabal install
>>>
>>> You may need to install some dependencies first - using the old
>>> cabal-install worked fine for me for this, but maybe it secretly corrupted
>>> something behind the scenes. I haven't had trouble so far.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 26, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Konstantine Rybnikov <k-bx at k-bx.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi!
>>>>
>>>> I just did `sudo make install` on ghc 7.10.1-rc1, removed ~/.ghc and
>>>> did `cabal update`. I'm now trying to upgrade to latest cabal by issuing
>>>> `cabal install cabal-install`. I get the following:
>>>>
>>>> ```
>>>> ...
>>>> on the commandline: Warning:
>>>>     -package-name is deprecated: Use -this-package-key instead
>>>> ghc: ghc no longer supports single-file style package databases
>>>> (dist/package.conf.inplace) use 'ghc-pkg init' to create the database with
>>>> the correct format.
>>>> Failed to install zlib-0.5.4.2
>>>> cabal: Error: some packages failed to install:
>>>> HTTP-3001.0.4 depends on text-1.2.0.3 which failed to install.
>>>> cabal-install-0.4.0 depends on zlib-0.5.4.2 which failed to install.
>>>> mtl-2.2.1 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
>>>> ExitFailure 1
>>>> network-2.6.0.2 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
>>>> ExitFailure 1
>>>> parsec-3.1.7 depends on text-1.2.0.3 which failed to install.
>>>> text-1.2.0.3 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
>>>> ExitFailure 1
>>>> zlib-0.5.4.2 failed during the building phase. The exception was:
>>>> ExitFailure 1
>>>> ```
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know a quick-fix?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks!
>>>>
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