August 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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Integration with Hackage now live
by Don Stewart 26 Aug '09

26 Aug '09

The archlinux package has some scripts for generating maps of hackage names to Arch urls. Hackage now displays links to distro packages, of which Arch is the most common at the moment (Debian is also there if you hunt around): http://hackage.haskell.org/package/pureMD5 -- Don

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Unregistering lots of packages
by Don Stewart 24 Aug '09

24 Aug '09

Unregistering lots of packages is quite slow now, since we run haddock in the unregister script (to recompute the index?). Any thoughts on how to avoid it?

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Updated packages to cabal2arch > 0.6
by Don Stewart 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

Hey all, As you can see, http://www.galois.com/~dons/arch-haskell-status.html I've updated almost all AUR packages to have been built with cabal2arch 0.6.1. This should fix the "yaourt rebuild" problem. I've also modified cabal2arch to inject dependencies for QuickCheck and parsec, when packages depend on versions newer than that shipped in the core. (Same for all core packages, actually). Finally, you'll notice in the status page that the names of packages are sometimes colored red or green: this indicates whether the last time they were built, it succeed for failed to build. I'm now doing a full rebuild of AUR Haskell, using cabal-install to do the topological ordering. You should see a complete set of green/red lights for buildable packages tomorrow sometime. -- Don

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documentation failures due to conflicting with ghc docs
by Don Stewart 17 Aug '09

17 Aug '09

So another issue raised by the documentation of packages: haskell-regex-base: /usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/regex-base exists in filesystem The docs are installed in the right place, then we do a symlink, install -d -m755 $pkgdir/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries ln -s /usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/html ${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/ghc/libraries/regex-base Seems like something else we want to think about. -- Don

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Better statistics/work queue
by Don Stewart 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

I've got the package status script running well now. Check it: http://www.galois.com/~dons/arch-haskell-status.html You can sort on the data you're interested in, e.g. * built against old cabal2arch * popular on hackage * popular on AUR (generated by the 'report' function in Distribution.ArchLinux.Report). Cheers, Don

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haddock failures stopping packages building
by Don Stewart 16 Aug '09

16 Aug '09

Hey all, Anyone have thoughts on whether we treat haddock failing at build time as a non-fatal error now? A couple of projects aren't building, e.g. haskell-xosd 0.1.1-1 due to a haddock failure. I'm wondering if we should handle that gracefully. -- Don

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Time to move haskell-platform into [community]
by Don Stewart 15 Aug '09

15 Aug '09

Seems like it might be time to start shipping binary versions of the haskell-platform and its dependencies. vegai, et al, what do you think? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26279

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Package status page
by Don Stewart 15 Aug '09

15 Aug '09

Haskell AUR package status page: http://www.galois.com/~dons/arch-haskell-status.html Shows the packages maintained by arch-haskell, their version, and warnings if they're out of date, or built with cabal2arch < 0.4. The page is generated by Distribution.ArchLinux.Report, and queries AUR, Hackage and cabal for info about the packages. There's initial support for lint checking of PKGBUILDs Red is used to indicate work that needs to be done. We could also track Haskell Platform compliance by feeding in a different package list. The status page is linked from the Arch Haskell news site: http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/ -- Don

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Re: [arch-haskell] archlinux haskell library
by Gour 15 Aug '09

15 Aug '09

>>>>> "Don" == Don Stewart <dons(a)galois.com> writes: Oops, it was meant for the list. I hope you don't mind replying back here... >> Wonderful. Are you aware that one guy recently started with another >> yaourt wrapper written in CL - see >> >> http://github.com/skypher/paktahn/tree/master Don> Interesting. Thanks. Don> BTW, I definitely *don't* want to wrap yaourt -- it is a scary mix Don> of shell scripts and regex munging. It is good though for reverse Don> engineering the interfaces. Well, I belive he is wrapping libalpm and I suggested him to do so considering it the right approach, although he might be directly using pacman as well...otoh, yaourt is just a hack. Sincerely, Gour -- Gour | Hlapičina, Croatia | GPG key: F96FF5F6 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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