Currently if I do not want to use the default locations for cabal then the following:
dist\build\cabal\cabal.exe --config-file=urghh --remote-repo-cache=foo --verbose=3 update
will create urghh but will still (silently) put the repository cache at repoLocalDir = "C:\\Documents and Settings\\steinitd\\Application Data\\cabal\\packages\\hackage.haskell.org" I've made a few changes which will put the cache at "foo". I don't have access to darcs at the moment so I've attached the changes. Let me know if a darcs patch is worth doing. Dominic. In Config.hs: loadConfig :: Verbosity -> GlobalFlags {-Flag FilePath-} -> Flag Bool -> IO SavedConfig loadConfig verbosity globalFlags {-configFileFlag-} userInstallFlag = addBaseConf $ do configFile <- maybe defaultConfigFile return (flagToMaybe (globalConfigFile globalFlags){-configFileFlag-}) minp <- readConfigFile mempty configFile case minp of Nothing -> do notice verbosity $ "Config file " ++ configFile ++ " not found." notice verbosity $ "Writing default configuration to " ++ configFile commentConf <- commentSavedConfig initialConf <- initialSavedConfig writeConfigFile configFile commentConf (initialConf `mappend` (mempty {savedGlobalFlags = globalFlags})) return initialConf The other cases of loadConfig are unchanged. In Main.hs global replace: loadConfig verbosity (globalConfigFile globalFlags) by loadConfig verbosity globalFlags