vegai:
Hey,
The new ghc is just a simple verbump at least for now. It doesn't try to do anything intelligent for your cabalized or cabal2arch packages, so all those do break.
"break" in the sense that they're now registered but won't have an appropriate compiler installed.
I'm interested in ideas how to mitigate these issues... now, it seems to me that they cannot very much, and the most we can do is unregister everything prior to upgrading and informing the user of this.
Right. If we could at least list the names (and commands to reinstall ) packages that are about to break (all haskell-* on the system), that might be nice. Essentially, something like: "WARNING: the following packages will need to be reinstalled: pacman -Qs haskell- local/haskell-xauth 0.1-1 A binding to the X11 authentication library local/haskell-xcb-types 0.5.1.1-1 Parses XML files used by the XCB project local/haskell-xhtml 3000.2.0.1-1 An XHTML combinator library local/haskell-xml 1.3.4-1 A simple XML library. local/haskell-xml-basic 0.0.1-1 Basics for XML/HTML representation and processing local/haskell-yogurt 0.3-1 A MUD client library local/haskell-zip-archive 0.1.1.3-1 Library for creating and modifying zip archives. local/haskell-zlib 0.5.0.0-1 Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats local/haskell-zoneinfo 0.3-1 ZoneInfo library. ... etc... ?
Also, none of the community packages are built against this yet, so those will break as well.
OK.