[Haskell-cafe] Building with some dependencies pre-installed in a sandbox

[Miëtek Bak]

It sounds like you’re looking for `cabal sandbox add-source`:
https://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/installing-packages.html#developing-with-sandboxes


-- 
Miëtek




On 2015-02-08, at 02:33, Jakub Arnold <darthdeus at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys, sorry for re-posting, but I feel that my original question is largely different from this one.
> 
> I've managed to get my broken dependency to build (the mysql package), but unfortunately I had to manually change its source code to make this happen, (original post https://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2015-February/118064.html), but I do have the package installed locally (or in the sandbox of my app).
> 
> The problem is that when I try to `cabal install` the whole application, it will re-download the `mysql` package from Hackage and try to build it again, instead of using the version I custom built and installed myself. Is it normal that cabal won't re-use the already existing packages, or did I somehow change it so that it won't recognize it?
> 
> Also, is it possible to explicitly say where should cabal resolve some of its dependencies? Such as this case when one package is in a local path, and other should be built from hackage. I'm not really sure what the best approach is here.
> 
> again sorry for posting twice in a row, but I just can't seem to find this information anywhere in the docs
> 
> Thanks!
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