October 2009 - arch-haskell

cabal2arch 0.6: now builds haddocks for libraries
by Don Stewart 18 Jan '10

18 Jan '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17471 Thanks Magnus for the patch. Note this means ghc <=> haddock need to stay in sync. -- Don

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I submitted a feature request for moving the Haskell Platform to Community on Arch
by Skottish 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

I submitted a feature request for moving the Haskell Platform to Community on Arch. If anyone has anything that they'd like to add, I think that it would go a long way in making it happen: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16816

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haskell platform dependencies
by Thomas Girod 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

hi there. I ran into some troubles installing haskell-platform today. Specifically, community contained haskell-zlib-0.5.2.0, which is too recent, and there was no pkgbuild for haskell-zlib-0.5.0.0 in AUR. So I'm wondering : can the arch-haskell script maintain a version of all dependencies of the haskell-platform in AUR, so we don't have problems installing it ? Or maybe having a set of pkgbuilds with a name like haskell-zlib-hp to explicitely state that it is the version blessed by the haskell-platform ? Cheers Tom

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Proper dependencies, please!
by Magnus Therning 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Yesterday there was an update to haskell-x11 available (1.4.6.1) and pacman was happy with installing it. GHC however, was not since a few of the other installed packages depended on version 1.4.5. Despite ghc-pkg complaining loudly pacman pushed on and in the end I was left with a somewhat broken system. To fix it I ran "pacman -Rcs haskell-x11", but that of course means I can't use xmonad until it has been recompiled against the newer haskell-x11. AFAICS this all stems from xmonad having the dependency on "haskell-x11" when it in fact ought be on "haskell-x11>=1.4.5 haskell<1.4.6". Is it possible to get these more specific dependencies into PKGBUILDs in some automated fashion, so that breakage like this can be easily avoided? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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