update-hackage: cabal new-update is not working

Author: rvl

scripts/update-hackage.nix

@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@
 import ./update-external.nix args {
   name = "hackage";
   script = ''
-    # Make sure the hackage index is recent.
-    cabal new-update
-
     # Clone or update the Hackage Nix expressions repo.
     if [ -d hackage.nix ]; then
       cd hackage.nix
@@ -15,6 +12,10 @@ import ./update-external.nix args {
       git clone [email protected]:input-output-hk/hackage.nix.git
     fi
 
+    # Make sure the hackage index is recent.
+    echo "Updating local hackage index..."
+    cabal update
+
     echo "Running hackage-to-nix..."
 
     hackage-to-nix hackage.nix