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Be more robust to store corruption #4119

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ezyang opened this issue Nov 18, 2016 · 0 comments
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Be more robust to store corruption #4119

ezyang opened this issue Nov 18, 2016 · 0 comments
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cabal-install: nix-local-build re: store-dir On local nix store (option `--store-dir`)

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ezyang commented Nov 18, 2016

The new-build code assumes that whatever is in .cabal/store is well-formed. However, in some cases the store can get corrupted; for example, if you upgrade to a new version of cabal-install that uses a different format, or if you manually modify files inside the store. In cases like this, new-build works extremely poorly; it will fail in a supremely uninformative way, and users won't have any recourse except to blow their store away and try again. It would be better if cabal-install was coded defensively against problems in the store.

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