When I wanted to upgrade to yi 0.4.6.2, I needed to download the new package list
cabal update #download list of new packages cabal upgrade #make any upgrades
I never knew there was a 'cabal update' command, and it worries me. In my unhappy experience of packaging systems (apt/Aptitude, fink/ FinkCommander, and DarwinPorts/MacPorts) it was never obvious when it should be necessary to run the update. Indeed, the advice given by each of these tools IIRC was to update every time you used it, before doing anything else. (So why was it a manual task then?) On the other hand, every one of those tools eventually failed for me on the update step, leaving me with an inconsistent and non-working configuration. Regards, Malcolm