2 Jul
2008
2 Jul
'08
8:22 a.m.
On Wed, 2008-07-02 at 06:40 -0400, Isaac Dupree wrote:
(which, incidentally, I was doing to try to find out why 'cabal fetch' doesn't seem to do anything. And failed miserably. No messages, no new directories in ~/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/ or in ./ ... Oh wait, fetching uvector works. Maybe it's because GHC comes with random-1.0.0.0 so cabal erroneously thinks it already has the source code that I want to look at, i.e. "for later installation *or study*" as `cabal --help` says?)
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/297 "cabal fetch command don't fetch packages those have already been installed" It shouldn't be too hard to fix, so you're most welcome to send in a patch :-) Duncan