#53: if cabal get update needs to run, say so ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: ijones | Owner: ijones Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Cabal-1.4 Component: cabal-install | Version: Severity: major | Resolution: Keywords: | Difficulty: normal Ghcversion: 6.2.1 | Platform: Linux ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by duncan): This is actually a tricky problem. We cannot just go online any old time to update the index. We have to be able to fetch packages and install and re-install them later without having to go online. So the question is, what are the points when we would have to go online anyway and so it'd be ok to update the index. Are there enough of them, or should we just suggest to update when the index is older than N days. Can someone come up with a proposal? -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/53#comment:6 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects