[darcs-users] darcs does not install in a fresh sandbox

[Thomas Hartman]

Damn it, this should be as simple as ubuntu on a virtualbox and vagrant up;
vagrant ssh ;)


On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 12:27 PM, Ganesh Sittampalam <ganesh at earth.li>wrote:

> Hi Dominic,
>
> I think you're using GHC 7.8, which isn't supported by darcs 2.8 -
> obviously the error here could be clearer!
>
> Darcs HEAD does build with GHC 7.8, at least on Windows, but there may
> be a serious bug with the filesystem handling for an as-yet-unidentified
> reason, so I would recommend against trying it for now.
>
> I'm not sure if we want to spend the effort supporting GHC 7.8 for the
> 2.8 branch - do you have a particular reason to need this?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ganesh
>
> On 14/04/2014 19:44, Dominic Steinitz wrote:
> > Anyone got any ideas?
> >
> > ~/Dropbox/Private/darcs $ cabal sandbox init
> > Writing a default package environment file to
> > /Users/dom/Dropbox/Private/darcs/cabal.sandbox.config
> > Creating a new sandbox at /Users/dom/Dropbox/Private/darcs/.cabal-sandbox
> > ~/Dropbox/Private/darcs $ cabal install darcs
> > Resolving dependencies...
> > cabal: Could not resolve dependencies:
> > trying: darcs-2.8.4 (user goal)
> > trying: darcs-2.8.4:+terminfo
> > trying: darcs-2.8.4:-force-char8-encoding
> > next goal: terminfo (dependency of darcs-2.8.4:+terminfo)
> > rejecting: terminfo-0.4.0.0 (conflict: darcs-2.8.4:terminfo =>
> > terminfo==0.3.*)
> > trying: terminfo-0.3.2.6
> > next goal: base (dependency of terminfo-0.3.2.6)
> > rejecting: base-4.7.0.0/installed-068... (conflict:
> > darcs-2.8.4:force-char8-encoding => base>=4 && <4.4)
> > rejecting: base-4.7.0.0, 4.6.0.1, 4.6.0.0, 4.5.1.0, 4.5.0.0, 4.4.1.0,
> 4.4.0.0,
> > 4.3.1.0, 4.3.0.0, 4.2.0.2, 4.2.0.1, 4.2.0.0, 4.1.0.0, 4.0.0.0, 3.0.3.2,
> > 3.0.3.1 (global constraint requires installed instance)
> > Backjump limit reached (change with --max-backjumps).
> >
> > Note: when using a sandbox, all packages are required to have consistent
> > dependencies. Try reinstalling/unregistering the offending packages or
> > recreating the sandbox.
> >
> > Dominic Steinitz
> > dominic at steinitz.org
> > http://idontgetoutmuch.wordpress.com
> >
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