Bug 493450 - Updating a release bump resets ghc's internal package list
Summary: Updating a release bump resets ghc's internal package list
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Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: ghc
Version: 10
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Jens Petersen
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-01 19:43 UTC by Bryan O'Sullivan
Modified: 2009-06-22 02:07 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2009-06-22 02:07:21 UTC
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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.)
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