#226: Cabal install should upgrade in the correct order. ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: HEAD Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.2 Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Also, `cabal upgrade package-name` should probably upgrade that packages and dependencies, but not other packages. Here was my session with darcs cabal-install 2008-01-31: {{{ $ cabal upgrade Upgrading the following packages: cgi-3001.1.5.2 hmatrix-0.2.0.0 pcre-light-0.3 regex-base-0.93.1 regex-compat-0.91 regex-posix-0.93.1 TypeCompose-0.3 xhtml-3000.0.2.2 zlib-0.4.0.2 Downloading 'cgi-3001.1.5.2'... [... cgi upgrades fine ...] Configuring regex-compat-0.91... setup: At least the following dependencies are missing: regex-base >=0.93, regex-posix >=0.93 Downloading 'TypeCompose-0.3'... Downloading 'xhtml-3000.0.2.2'... Downloading 'zlib-0.4.0.2'... cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: zlib-0.4.0.2 xhtml-3000.0.2.2 TypeCompose-0.3 regex-compat-0.91 regex-posix-0.93.1 regex-base-0.93.1 pcre-light-0.3 hmatrix-0.2.0.0 $ cabal upgrade regex-base Upgrading the following packages: hmatrix-0.2.0.0 pcre-light-0.3 regex-base-0.93.1 regex-compat-0.91 regex-posix-0.93.1 TypeCompose-0.3 xhtml-3000.0.2.2 zlib-0.4.0.2 'hmatrix-0.2.0.0' is cached. [... everything through TypeCompose upgrades fine ...] 'xhtml-3000.0.2.2' is cached. Configuring xhtml-3000.0.2.2... 'zlib-0.4.0.2' is cached. Configuring zlib-0.4.0.2... [... zlib upgrades fine ...] cabal: Error: some packages failed to install: xhtml-3000.0.2.2 $ cabal upgrade Upgrading the following packages: xhtml-3000.0.2.2 'xhtml-3000.0.2.2' is cached. Configuring xhtml-3000.0.2.2... [... succeeds ...] }}} -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/226 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects