On 15 October 2012 17:16, Mateusz Loskot <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15 October 2012 11:00, Thomas Friedrich <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2012/10/13 Fabio Riga <[email protected]>: >>> 2012/10/13 Ramana Kumar <[email protected]> >>>> >>>> I'm not sure why that error happened but it happened to me too. >>> >>> The problem seems to be that those files were not part of any package, >>> but now are in ghc. >>> >>>> I removed the offending files manually and tried again, and ran into more >>>> problems (although everything installed, there were many warnings about >>>> interface files >>>> being the wrong version and being skipped). >>>> So I'm not sure what the correct way out is. Perhaps it will require some >>>> manual removals then reinstalls. >>> >>> This is a problem with ghc-pkg version. For previous version of ghc I had >>> to do: >>> >>> $ pacman -Rcs ghc >>> >>> then reinstall ghc and needed haskell-* packages. I think you'll want >>> to remove the offending files before installing ghc again. I hope this >>> solve the problem. >> >> >> Why is it that every single time there is a ghc-update, I have to >> remove everything and reinstall everything haskell related. Haskell is >> such a cool language but keeping a Haskell environment up-to-date is >> sometimes just a real pain. > > As Haskell newbie and new born Hakyll users, I've found recent > replies [1] by Ian Ross interesting: > > "I'm also using Arch Linux on x86_64. I would strongly recommend *not* > using the Arch packages for most Haskell things. I use hsenv instead." > > I haven't switched myself and I still use the packages, but I started to > wonder if Ian's got the point indeed. > > [1] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/hakyll/9G1qXBA4raU/discussion
This is just an update on the discussion I referred to, Ian posted more details on his blog: http://www.skybluetrades.net/posts/2012/10/13/arch-haskell.html Other users may find it interesting too. Best regards, -- Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net _______________________________________________ arch-haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell
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