haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages: fix for GHC 8.10
This closes #79441. ghcWithPackages is using `ghc-pkg recache` to build its package database. By doing so, it overrides the `package.cache[.lock]` files. Details are unclear, but GHC 8.10 changed a bit the behavior. Previously, it was unconditionally replacing the files by new ones. Now it tries to open (for modification) the files. These files are symlinks to another nix derivation, which is hence read-only. This commit removes the files before running `ghc-pkg recache`, hence it will just write the new files. Tested with `haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages` (i.e. GHC 8.8) and `haskell.packages.ghc8101.ghcWithPackages` (i.e GHC 8.10) with the following nix file, at the root of the nixpkgs repository: ``` with import ./. { overlays = [ ( self: super: { haskellPackages = super.haskell.packages.ghc8101.override { overrides = selfh: superh: { th-lift-instances = super.haskell.lib.doJailbreak superh.th-lift-instances; th-expand-syns = super.haskell.lib.doJailbreak superh.th-expand-syns; th-reify-many = super.haskell.lib.doJailbreak superh.th-reify-many; th-orphans = super.haskell.lib.doJailbreak superh.th-orphans; haskell-src-meta = super.haskell.lib.doJailbreak superh.haskell-src-meta; }; }; } ) ]; }; haskellPackages.ghcWithPackages(p:[p.PyF]) ``` This will test with GHC 8.10. Comment out the `overlays` to test with GHC 8.8.
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