try to get travis working with contemporary cabal

.travis.yml

@@ -30,38 +30,13 @@ before_install:
 install:
  - cabal --version
  - echo "$(ghc --version) [$(ghc --print-project-git-commit-id 2> /dev/null || echo '?')]"
- - if [ -f $HOME/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar.gz ];
-   then
-     zcat $HOME/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar.gz >
-          $HOME/.cabal/packages/hackage.haskell.org/00-index.tar;
-   fi
- - travis_retry cabal update -v
  - sed -i 's/^jobs:/-- jobs:/' ${HOME}/.cabal/config
- - cabal install --only-dependencies --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks --dry -v > installplan.txt
- - sed -i -e '1,/^Resolving /d' installplan.txt; cat installplan.txt
-
-# check whether current requested install-plan matches cached package-db snapshot
- - if diff -u installplan.txt $HOME/.cabsnap/installplan.txt;
+ - if [ -d $HOME/.cabsnap ];
    then
-     echo "cabal build-cache HIT";
-     rm -rfv .ghc;
-     cp -a $HOME/.cabsnap/ghc $HOME/.ghc;
-     cp -a $HOME/.cabsnap/lib $HOME/.cabsnap/share $HOME/.cabsnap/bin $HOME/.cabal/;
-   else
-     echo "cabal build-cache MISS";
-     rm -rf $HOME/.cabsnap;
-     mkdir -p $HOME/.ghc $HOME/.cabal/lib $HOME/.cabal/share $HOME/.cabal/bin;
-     cabal install --only-dependencies --enable-tests --enable-benchmarks;
-   fi
-
-# snapshot package-db on cache miss
- - if [ ! -d $HOME/.cabsnap ];
-   then
-      echo "snapshotting package-db to build-cache";
-      mkdir $HOME/.cabsnap;
-      cp -a $HOME/.ghc $HOME/.cabsnap/ghc;
-      cp -a $HOME/.cabal/lib $HOME/.cabal/share $HOME/.cabal/bin installplan.txt $HOME/.cabsnap/;
+      cp -a $HOME/.cabsnap/ghc $HOME/.ghc;
+      cp -a $HOME/.cabsnap/lib $HOME/.cabsnap/share $HOME/.cabsnap/bin $HOME/.cabal/;
    fi
+ - travis_retry cabal update -v
 
 # Here starts the actual work to be performed for the package under test;
 # any command which exits with a non-zero exit code causes the build to fail.
@@ -78,4 +53,9 @@ script:
  - SRC_TGZ=$(cabal info . | awk '{print $2;exit}').tar.gz &&
    (cd dist && cabal install --force-reinstalls "$SRC_TGZ")
 
+ - rm -rf $HOME/.cabsnap
+ - mkdir $HOME/.cabsnap;
+ - cp -a $HOME/.ghc $HOME/.cabsnap/ghc;
+ - cp -a $HOME/.cabal $HOME/.cabsnap/;
+
 # EOF