20 Jan
2015
20 Jan
'15
2:06 a.m.
Hi,
On 20 January 2015 at 04:03, Greg Weber
--pristine Unpack the original pristine tarball, rather than updating the .cabal file with the latest revision from the package archive.
Why is this option needed if the tarball is never modified? This documentation states that cabal modifies the cabal file on the local system.
By default, `cabal unpack` replaces the .cabal file in the unpacked tarball with the one from the index. With '--pristine' it doesn't do that.