On Mon, 2009-11-16 at 00:47 +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:
package authors,
I'm preparing to release two new versions of cabal-install.
The cabal-install 0.6.4 version has now been released. Users will get prompted to upgrade when they next run cabal update. Note this version still will not work with ghc-6.12. But it will give people a better error message and tell them how to upgrade. The (as yet unreleased) cabal-install 0.8.x version will work with ghc-6.12. This version is only available via darcs at the moment. darcs get --partial http://darcs.haskell.org/cabal-install If you do want to test the ghc-6.12 RC, I recommend upgrading your cabal-install to a 0.8.x version before removing any older ghc version you've currently got. One additional fallout from the cabal-install release is that mtlx-0.1.1 is now broken. The cabal program will refuse to unpack mtlx-0.1.1.tar.gz because it classifies it as a tarbomb. A tarbomb is a tar file that would unpack files into the top level directory rather than all files under the subdirectory ./mtlx-0.1.1/. The tar file contains the stray entry "./._mtlx-0.1.1". This package will need to be re-uploaded. My suggestion is to use cabal sdist since this only selects the required files (but do check all the required files are listed) and it always uses a portable tar format. Duncan