[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#574841: Bug#574841: cabal-install: Getting "failed to parse output of 'ghc-pkg dump'" on cabal list

[Brandon Simmons]

Thanks,
That solved it. My mistake.

Brandon

On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Iain Lane <laney at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> tags 574841 + unreproducible
> thanks
>
> Hi there,
>
> On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 12:18:54PM -0400, Brandon Simmons wrote:
>>
>> Package: cabal-install
>> Version: 0.8.0-1
>> Severity: serious
>> Justification: Policy 3.5
>>
>> The following is the error I see:
>>
>>   $ cabal list
>>   cabal: failed to parse output of 'ghc-pkg dump'
>>
>> And here is the version info:
>>
>>   $ ghc-pkg list Cabal
>>   /var/lib/ghc-6.12.1/package.conf.d
>>      Cabal-1.8.0.2
>>
>>   $ cabal --version
>>   cabal-install version 0.6.0
>>   using version 1.6.0.1 of the Cabal library
>>
>> I think that cabal-install is not compatible with Cabal-1.8.0.2, but I
>> assume
>> this is a dependency problem on ghc-6.12.1?
>>
>> Let me know if I can provide more information and thanks for the help.
>
> Your installation is messed up. I suspect that you are using a local copy of
> cabal-install. Here's what it should look like (from a squeeze chroot):
>
>  root at chicken:/# cabal --version
>  cabal-install version 0.8.0
>  using version 1.8.0.2 of the Cabal library
>
> Try in a new user account or remove ~/.cabal and see if you can reproduce,
> please.
>
> Cheers,
> Iain
>
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