October 2010 - cabal-devel

[Hackage] #711: cabal install cabal-install fails for OSX dmg
by Hackage 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

#711: cabal install cabal-install fails for OSX dmg ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: hartrock | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.2 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: 6.12.1 Platform: Mac OS | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- After installing http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/2010.1.0.0/haskell- platform-2010.1.0.1-i386.dmg the following occurs: see attached file. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/711> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #697: Add "cabal build-dep" command
by Hackage 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

#697: Add "cabal build-dep" command ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: igloo | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: HEAD Severity: major | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ The [http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/wiki/HackageTesting hackage testing tool] needs a "cabal build-dep" command to work. I had an inadequate patch that was good enough for my experiments (http://osdir.com/ml/cabal-devel@haskell.org/2010-01/msg00029.html) but lack the familiarity with the cabal-install design necessary to implement it properly. Sadly, the patch no longer applies to cabal-install HEAD, and regardless, it would make things a lot easier if it Just Worked out of the box. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/697> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #709: cabal doesn't handle error conditions from getAppUserDataDirectory
by Hackage 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

#709: cabal doesn't handle error conditions from getAppUserDataDirectory ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: creswick | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.8.0.2 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: 6.12.1 Platform: Windows | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Distribution.Simple.InstallDirs.defaultInstallDirs fails if getAppUserDataDirectory fails, and it does so with a very uninformative error: {{{ # On Cabal 1.8.0.2: cabal.exe: illegal operation }}} This is a slight regression from the HP 2009 version: {{{ # On Cabal 1.6.0.3: cabal.exe: System.Directory.getAppUserDataDirectory: unsupported operation (unsupported operation) }}} This happens on Windows Vista, in cygwin, when the user doesn't have a windows user directory (eg: c:\users\username ). -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/709> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #698: Hayoo! links on Hackage are broken
by Hackage 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

#698: Hayoo! links on Hackage are broken --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: hackageDB website | Version: 1.6.0.3 Severity: minor | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- The links to Hayoo! on Hackage point to http://holumbus.fh- wedel.de/hayoo/hayoo.html, which is returning a 404 File Not Found error. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/698> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #693: Missing instructions for running Cabal's testsuite
by Hackage 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

#693: Missing instructions for running Cabal's testsuite ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: tibbe | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- It's not quite clear to me how to get `tests/suite.cabal` to build using an in-place build of Cabal. I played around with passing `--package-db ../dist/package.conf.inplace` to `configure` when configuring `tests/suite.cabal` without success. A `tests/README` file would be very useful. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/693> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #679: Hackage website should obscure email addresses
by Hackage 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

#679: Hackage website should obscure email addresses --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Reporter: jbapple | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: hackageDB website | Version: 1.6.0.3 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | --------------------------------+------------------------------------------- Email addresses on hackage are getting captured by spambots. HackageDB can implement solutions that individual maintainers could not (javascript) or reduce the amount of redundant work maintainers have to do. Leaving the field unprotected discourages maintainers from providing email addresses for contact. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/679> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #676: bash-completion gets confused by alias for rm
by Hackage 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

#676: bash-completion gets confused by alias for rm ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: benmachine | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: HEAD Severity: minor | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: 6.12.1 Platform: Linux | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ I have an alias for rm defined so that it is by default verbose (alias rm='rm -v' in my bashrc). When I do cabal install has<tab> I get something like: [ben@euler ~]$ cabal install hasbash: bad substitution: no closing "`" in `/tmp/cabal_completion.tD2o8O' It turns out that rm is helpfully going: removed `/tmp/cabal_completion.hb1zbc' and then cabal is trying to use this as part of the completion command - choking on the ` because bash thinks it is part of a substitution. So rm should probably explicitly discard its stdout. While I was there I noticed that "cat" is used redundantly. There's nothing really wrong with this so that part of the patch can be cut I suppose, but I thought it was neater to use bash's input redirection explicitly. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/676> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #677: Error: Couldn't read cabal file "./HDBC/2.2.5/HDBC.cabal"
by Hackage 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

#677: Error: Couldn't read cabal file "./HDBC/2.2.5/HDBC.cabal" ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.6.0.3 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: 6.10.4 Platform: Linux | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ I recently upgraded cabal-install and started getting this error: $ cabal install HDBC Resolving dependencies... cabal: Couldn't read cabal file "./HDBC/2.2.5/HDBC.cabal" I also get the same error when I try to install one of my own packages that depends on HDBC. I tried changing my HDBC dependency to == 2.2.2 as well as >= 2.2.6, but still get the same error for version 2.2.5. I have cabal-install version 0.6.2 and Cabal version 1.6.0.3. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/677> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #674: Findable extra documentation
by Hackage 05 Jan '12

05 Jan '12

#674: Findable extra documentation ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: jbapple | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.3 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- I have a cabal package that should include extra documentation in the distribution. This documentation should not be written in Haddock. 1. There should be a field for this analogous to data-files or extra- source-files. The former is too much: the files do not need to be accessed by any Haskell runtime. The latter is not enough: it does not store the extracted files on the system on which the package is installed. 2. There should be a way for humans to find these files without loading up a GHC runtime or using Unix's "find". I suggest "cabal list" also shows, for installed packages with extra data or documentation files installed, where these files can be found. -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/674> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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[Hackage] #743: cabal-install boostrap problem: missing: time ==1.1.*
by Hackage 04 Mar '11

04 Mar '11

#743: cabal-install boostrap problem: missing: time ==1.1.* ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.8.0.4 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: very easy (<1 hour) | Ghcversion: 6.10.4 Platform: Linux | ----------------------------------+----------------------------------------- The bootstrap script does not install the time library, whereas cabal- install depends on it. cabal-install-0.8.2 -- Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/743> Hackage <http://haskell.org/cabal/> Hackage: Cabal and related projects

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