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Sender	Message	Time
12 Sep 2025
bglgwyng	* Hmm I'm trying haskell.nix now. Actually, I should build my package to bootstrap things, so that how to build it is not important.	08:33:34
maralorn	Best explanation I can think of is that there is a dependency chain cabal-install -> X -> hackage-security, where X is a core package distributed with ghc. Then X would not be affected by the overrideScope and thus use the wrong hackage-security. But this is close to where I normally give up …	08:34:07
oak 🏳️‍🌈♥️	The maintainer scripts maintainers/scripts/haskell/ seem broken, I get this error with multiple scripts: `error: access to absolute path '/home/myusername/.local' is forbidden in restricted mode`	13:08:51
maralorn	Overriding core adjacent packages is just a pain and actually the one time where I switched to haskell.nix …	08:34:42
oak 🏳️‍🌈♥️	`./maintainers/scripts/haskell/regenerate-hackage-packages.sh --fast` goes through, but without --fast I get the above error	13:11:37
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