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cabal v2-install fails late if symlink target already exists #6832

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fgaz opened this issue May 22, 2020 · 1 comment
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cabal v2-install fails late if symlink target already exists #6832

fgaz opened this issue May 22, 2020 · 1 comment
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attention: pr-welcome cabal-install: nix-local-build type: enhancement
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fgaz commented May 22, 2020

(continuing from #5491)

Right now cabal v2-install x first builds x and then attempts to symlink its executables, failing if they already exist.

Instead, we should check for existing symlinks before building anything, and fail as early as possible. See #5491 (comment) and previous comments
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jneira commented Jun 19, 2022

@fgaz hi, have you still plans to work on this? it seems a not too hard a nice change so i am gonna label with pr welcome

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@ulysses4ever ulysses4ever modified the milestones: Considered for 3.4, 3.9 Jun 19, 2022
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