Re: 1.18 and 1.20 patch releases done

I've now done 1.18 and 1.20 cabal-install releases that should hopefully fix this. On Sat, Dec 20, 2014 at 4:02 AM, Miëtek Bak wrote:

I’m not sure if I understand the problem. I believe bootstrap.sh should be expected to be run only on a bare system with nothing but GHC installed. If the user is already able to install Cabal packages, i.e. has some version cabal-install, they should be using that, not bootstrap.sh. Does this assumption simplify the problem you’re seeing?

-- Miëtek

On 2014-12-20, at 08:11, Johan Tibell wrote:

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I've spent a considerable amount of time [1] now and I don't think we can fix it in a way which works with both network < 2.6 and network >= 2.6/network-uri >=26. In fact I don't know if I can get bootstrap.sh working at all. Without actually using cabal-install to do the dependency/flag resolution and make sure we build using a consistent set of packages we end up in problems like these:

Distribution/Client/HttpUtils.hs:68:43: Couldn't match expected type ‘network-2.4.2.3:Network.URI.URI’ with actual type ‘URI’ NB: ‘network-2.4.2.3:Network.URI.URI’ is defined in ‘Network.URI’ in package ‘network-2.4.2.3’ ‘URI’ is defined in ‘Network.URI’ in package ‘network-uri-2.6.0.1’ In the ‘rqURI’ field of a record In the expression: Request {rqURI = uri, rqMethod = GET, rqHeaders = Header HdrUserAgent userAgent : ifNoneMatchHdr, rqBody = ByteString.empty}

See full log: http://lpaste.net/116892

The cause is the HTTP package and the Cabal package being compiled against different versions of network. Given how bootstrap.sh works there's no real avoiding this. We can only hope that the user only has one version of network installed.

1. See the latest commits on the https://github.com/haskell/cabal/tree/1.18 branch.

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:43 AM, Johan Tibell wrote: Ah, the bootstrap script needs to be updated after the Network.URI split. :/

On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 4:47 AM, Miëtek Bak wrote: I should add — this is on a bare Ubuntu 14.04 LTS system, with only GHC 7.8.3 installed, and nothing else.

-- Miëtek

On 2014-12-16, at 03:37, Miëtek Bak wrote:

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Bootstrapping 1.20.0.4 fails for me:

Configuring cabal-install-1.20.0.4... Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing: network-uri <2.6

Error during cabal-install bootstrap: Configuring the cabal-install package failed.

-- Miëtek

On 2014-12-15, at 23:16, Johan Tibell wrote:

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I just pushed Cabal and cabal-install releases on both the 1.18 and 1.20 branches live. _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list cabal-devel@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel