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

[Iain Lane]

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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