On Wed, 2008-12-24 at 13:19 +0000, Dominic Steinitz wrote:
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"
Ah so when the config file does not exist the --remote-repo-cache flag is ignored and the default value from the newly created config file is used instead.
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.
Yes please though check that it's not already fixed. I made some changes in that code relatively recently. There are a couple other path settings that are still hard coded and should really be configurable. We should also have a way to operate without any config file at all for install scripts etc. Duncan