Bug 493450

Summary:	Updating a release bump resets ghc's internal package list
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bryan O'Sullivan <bos>
Component:	ghc	Assignee:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	10	CC:	bos, haskell-devel, loupgaroublond, petersen
Target Milestone:	---
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2009-06-22 02:07:21 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Description Bryan O'Sullivan 2009-04-01 19:43:04 UTC

Last night, I installed a rawhide version of ghc 6.10.1 in place of the F10 version I had been running. I also had packages such as ghc-X11 installed at the time. When I ran "ghc-pkg list" after the update, the X11 and other such packages were no longer visible.

We need to develop a mechanism to make it possible to make minor updates to ghc without requiring that all devel packages be reinstalled afterwards :-(

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2009-05-19 07:34:53 UTC

Oh hmm that is bad and "should not happen"...

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2009-05-19 09:19:35 UTC

Are you sure?  I just tried in i386 f11 downgrading to f10 and back up to f11 ghc
and X11 package appeared for me all along.

package.conf is already marked %config(noreplace) though - I thought that should take care of it.

(We should really move package.conf to /etc like debian, but I think that is another story.)