[Haskell-cafe] Re: Updating Haskell Packages through Archlinux becoming A Pain

Hi Mathew,

[My GHC installation breaks] when pacman updates a package using an AUR package, which cabal refuses to install because it can break other packages (yet the package still gets installed according to pacman).

this bug has been fixed about two weeks ago; it should no longer occur with the current PKGBUILD files. An easy way to get your system back in shape is to un-install all Haskell packages by running pacman -R --cascade ghc ..., then clean up the package database with rm -rf /usr/lib/ghc-6.12.3 ..., and finally re-install those packages that you'd like to have. The procedure is a little awkward, I'm afraid, but you won't ever have to do it again, just this one time. ;-) Take care, Peter