#420: cabal-install upgrade optionally ignore packages that want a higher base? ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: jimburton | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.2.3.0 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.3 Platform: | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- If I try to upgrade all packages it fails because syb wants a newer base: $ cabal upgrade Resolving dependencies... cabal: cannot configure syb-0.1.0.0. It requires base >=4.0 There is no available version of base that satisfies >=4.0 I don't want to upgrade GHC (in fact I can't right now) but I presume that there are other packages that could upgrade. Rather than run `cabal install' on them one by one, what about upgrading everything that is upgradeable, i.e. happy with the current base? There is a (misleading) analogy to the way apt treats releases -- it won't tell me "Can't upgrade because you're using the wrong release", but releases are self-contained and upgrades take place within that context...but obviously different because there you have different package lists for different releases... -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/420 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects