Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal-1.10.1.0 and bytestring-0.9.2.1 hackage problem.

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Same workaround as last time works

I.e:

 tar -f ~/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar --delete bytestring/0.9.2.1

This will only work until the next 'cabal update', right? Does anyone have a better workaround?

This is the cabal-install shipped with Ubuntu 12.04 (i.e. the unreleased beta, which will become the new LTS in April), so buggy or not, it ought not to be broken if we can avoid it.  I've filed a bug:

It's also the cabal-install shipped with Ubuntu 11.10, i.e. the current version that everyone uses. So it would be nice if the offending version could also be removed from hackage or something similar to prevent this problem for everyone. Erik