[Haskell-cafe] Problems updating cabal-install on Mac OS

6 Nov 2012

      Hi Cafe,

I just installed the brand new Haskell Platform 2012.4.0.0 for Mac OS X,
32 bit, after removing everything left over from the old one (I hope).

Next I started cabal which said to me:
...
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
Note: there is a new version of cabal-install available.
To upgrade, run: cabal install cabal-install
So next I did

cabal install cabal-install

which started working
...
Resolving dependencies...
Downloading Cabal-1.16.0.2...
and finished with
...
Installing executable(s) in
/Users/bo/Library/Haskell/ghc-7.4.2/lib/cabal-install-1.16.0.1/bin
Updating documentation index /Users/bo/Library/Haskell/doc/index.html
When I then tried

cabal update

it still said
...
Downloading the latest package list from hackage.haskell.org
Note: there is a new version of cabal-install available.
To upgrade, run: cabal install cabal-install
I thought I just had done that. What could have gone wrong?
...
Haralds-iMac:~ bo$ which cabal
/Users/bo/Library/Haskell/bin/cabal
Haralds-iMac:~ bo$ ls -l `which cabal`
lrwxr-xr-x  1 bo  staff  49  6 Nov 18:15 /Users/bo/Library/Haskell/bin/cabal -> ../ghc-7.4.2/lib/cabal-install-1.16.0.1/bin/cabal
Now that I am writing this up I am noticing that the last thing that
seems to be installed has version number 1.16.0.1, while it started out
with 1.16.0.2.

So on a second thought I am attaching the full log of the install.

Am I doing anything wrong?

Harald
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