[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.

[Doug Burke]

Glad it helped.

Doug

On Sat, Dec 27, 2014 at 6:23 PM, Konstantine Rybnikov <k-bx at k-bx.com> wrote:

> 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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