[darcs-users] Darcs 2.3 beta 3 (interim)

[Mark Stosberg]

On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 12:37:50 -0700
Jason Dagit <dagit at codersbase.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Mark Stosberg <mark at summersault.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:05:33 +0200
> > Petr Rockai <me at mornfall.net> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I made an interim beta release with a fix to the bad index segfault
> > > (hopefully). This should be the last beta in this release cycle, unless
> > further
> > > problems arise. In less than two weeks, we are looking at an RC and a
> > final
> > > release. Fasten your seat-belts!
> > >
> > > Yours,
> > >    Petr.
> > >
> > > PS: Just cabal install darcs-beta to get it. Reports always welcome.
> >
> > This fails for me like the first beta did:
> >
> > $ cabal install darcs-beta
> > Warning: No remote package servers have been specified. Usually you would
> > have
> > one specified in the config file.
> > cabal: There is no package named darcs-beta
> >
> > ####
> >
> > I'm sure there's some Haskell documentation I could find read somewhere
> > about
> > how to read this, but darcs should be more user-friendly than that. It
> > should
> > contain all the instructions I need to install and use it, including
> > getting
> > cabal setup if that's the recommended way to install it, and cabal
> > apparently
> > doesn't always auto-configure default download servers for you.
> 
> 
> Normally it does.  Do you recall how you installed cabal-install? 

I installed "cabal-install" from here, following the instructions:

http://www.haskell.org/cabal/download.html

I don't think a ~/.cabal/config was created for me as part of that.  One
of the instructions suggested that I add a symlink-bindir entry to it.
When I went to do that, I found the file was missing and I created it.

    Mark