[Haskell-cafe] Cabal and IPv6

[Herbert Valerio Riedel]

Hello!

While the primary upstream doesn't have an AAAA record, one of the
mirrors[1] does have a fully functioning AAAA record, and I'd expect
hackage-security's mirror fallback logic to fallback to that one.

If you're using a recent cabal 1.24, you will have to enable the
hackage-security capable transport by enabling the "secure" repos by
making sure the "secure: True" line is active like so in your
~/.cabal/config

repository hackage.haskell.org
  url: http://hackage.haskell.org/
  secure: True

Starting with the soon to be released cabal 2.0 version,
hackage-security is enabled by default.

If this still doesn't work for you, please file an issue at
https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues


 [1]: http://objects-us-west-1.dream.io/hackage-mirror/"

On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 11:42 PM, Serguey Zefirov <sergueyz at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have found that Cabal does not work on IPv6-only networks (which my
> machine happen to be part of).
>
> The problem is basically this: "ping hackage.haskell.org" does not resolve
> host while "ping6 hackage.haskell.org" does. Thus cabal cannot do anything
> useful on that machine.
>
> Do anyone have a solution for that? I was unable to find any on the
> internet. ;)
>
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