ghc/Xmonad -- is it ok to force ghc install? -- IgnorePkg=xmonad

yvonney · 2010-08-13 19:10:02

Hi.... after getting dependency notices on haskell packages for a few days when doing a pacman -Syu
I added IgnorePkg=xmonad to pacman.conf

So, is it ok to force ghc install?

resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: haskell-mtl: requires ghc=6.12.1
:: haskell-utf8-string: requires ghc=6.12.1
:: haskell-x11-xft: requires ghc=6.12.1
:: xmonad: requires ghc=6.12.1

Using brisbin33's tricked out, make that 'uber-happy' dotfiles, along with the xmonad goodies.
http://pbrisbin.com:8080/dotfiles/xmonad_xmonad.hs
Thinking that perhaps I'm to go to other version of the above dependencies or something.
never a worry, life's great with less!

Last edited by yvonney (2010-08-13 19:14:37)

splittercode · 2010-08-13 20:25:31

I'm not sure I understand your question completely, but since the configuration file (xmonad.hs) contains all 'settings' for xmonad, you should be able to completely remove all xmonad related packages (ghc, haskell modules, xmonad itself) and then reinstall them without any setbacks. Why did you ignore xmonad updates in the first place though?

Last edited by splittercode (2010-08-13 20:36:56)

yvonney · 2010-08-13 20:37:15

just updating as usual -- I do have testing repo though.
haven't done a thing though the other day upon doing a pacman update the above occured.
not sure what's trying to update. perhaps Xmonad as well as ghc. Can't say what's happening though perhaps one or more of the dependencies is thinking the darcs version which I used until about a month ago.

thank you!

Mr.Elendig · 2010-08-14 13:00:31

The problem is probably that you are using testing, and the packages that pacman complains about have not been rebuilt against ghc 6.12.3 in testing.

you should ask the maintainer if he would be as kind as to rebuild those packages and/or you should rebuild them yourself.

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2010-08-14 13:21:12)

cesura · 2010-08-14 17:54:10

Same thing I ran into. I was using [testing] for trying out KDE 4.5 before I switched to Xmonad and forgot to disable it. Removing the testing repo solved it.

yvonney · 2010-08-15 22:44:06

thanks!
still not aware of what to do so just staying with ingoring ghc in pacman.conf

I commented out testing and of course got the ton of things newer message... and I'm going to keep using testing anyways which I've turned back on logically i guess.

So then I considered forcing the new ghc to install. then with having scanned one of the arch-haskell emails and a quick think wondered if quite likely I'd break Xmonad.

So, right now all the haskell stuff and xmonad and ghc are ignored by pacman updates.

hehehe, something will happen I guess.
interested in the solution obviously.

Last edited by yvonney (2010-08-15 22:44:44)

Mr.Elendig · 2010-08-16 11:08:11

As I said, you can also rebuild the packages yourself agains 6.12.3

wonder · 2010-08-16 12:13:43

in my opinion that is a bug and should be reported.

milomouse · 2010-08-17 16:30:51

When I ran into the problem I just uninstalled xmonad and haskell packages with pacman -Rnd and then rebuilt each one, simply changing the PKGBUILD to use new ghc 6.12.3 (and haskell-array 0.3.0.1, for haskell-stm) and everything worked fine. IMHO, I don't feel this is a problem and should be expected when using testing repo.

Nichollan · 2010-08-18 16:57:13

I receive pretty much that error while doing a pacman -Syu and not using the testing repository. I am not as knowledgable as others in this thread and am unsure of what to do. From what I understand the XMonad package is made so that it depends on an older version of GHC, while pacman wish to replace that version with a newer version.

cesura · 2010-08-18 17:10:26

I just used abs to fetch the PKGBUILD, then I edited it (/var/abs/community/xmonad/PKGBUILD) and changed the ghc part in the depends line from:

ghc=6.12.1

to

ghc>=6.12.1

and built the package with makepkg.

I don't know if that is a bad habit to get into, but it seemed to work fine.

fsckd · 2010-08-18 17:19:18

The error is now with
:: xmonad-contrib: requires xmonad=0.9.1
:: xmonad-contrib: requires haskell-x11-xft=0.3

edit: scratch that, it won't updgrade xmonad either

edit2: ignore this post, the mirror I am using hasn't updated yet

Last edited by fsckd (2010-08-18 17:28:06)

tvale · 2010-08-18 19:16:02

The new xmonad package (0.9.1-6) fixes the problem, the dependency version for GHC has been changed to 6.12.3. Problem solved.

Last edited by tvale (2010-08-18 19:16:52)

Nichollan · 2010-08-18 19:23:48

Hurray!

Here's also a thread about the same error.

https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103014

After trying out Openbox with PyTyle just now – noticing how Chromium had some graphical bugs in that environment, as well as i3 – where true transparency in urxvt doesn't seem to work out and some windows appeared to get hidden when the window manager was restarted, I figured that I would decompress every offending package from a mirror and edit their .PKGINFOs to not depend on any specific version of ghc, compress them again, and using pacman -U on the resulting files. Hopefully it wasn't too stupid.

Despite its dependency on Haskell for configuration, a language that I doubt I'll ever learn properly, I still find it the most pleasant window manager.

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#1 2010-08-13 19:10:02

ghc/Xmonad -- is it ok to force ghc install? -- IgnorePkg=xmonad

#2 2010-08-13 20:25:31

Re: ghc/Xmonad -- is it ok to force ghc install? -- IgnorePkg=xmonad

#3 2010-08-13 20:37:15

Re: ghc/Xmonad -- is it ok to force ghc install? -- IgnorePkg=xmonad

#4 2010-08-14 13:00:31

Re: ghc/Xmonad -- is it ok to force ghc install? -- IgnorePkg=xmonad

#5 2010-08-14 17:54:10

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