gbaz
Indeed, I can't remove the created file by hand as the `builder` user even with `rm -f` -- I need to change to superuser to do it.
`Linux hackage-docbuilder 5.10.0-14-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.113-1 (2022-04-29) x86_64` with a nonsuperuser account.
is there an example of where this goes wrong?
Sorry, this answer isn't especially helpful, but its pretty hardwired into the design of cabal that requiring a dependency should _not_ require it be configured with any specific flags, and...
Assume `foo` depends on `bar` but only with flag `barflag` set. Now, you can create a new package `barflag` with two versions, now set bar so that the flag `barflag`...
This is managed manually. We have a big migration coming up, and I think it would be better to just handle this when that comes rather than do any other...
We use exact match with stemming, not substring match. ncurses won't stem to "curses" and there's no use of the word "curses" in the package description, not sure how we...
Hrm. The trick I suppose is that we can't resolve the conditionals prior to the solver, because it will use them in backtracking. But we do need these bounds handled...
I can't remember why preferred were added -- before my time. It was motivated by a very small number of packages where there was some deliberate reason to prefer not-the-latest....
Thanks for all the reports. Indeed this is all migration fallout. @bgamari moved the builder to a new, nixified box. We made sure some core system libs were available to...