June 2011 - arch-haskell

Starting to help
by Fabio Riga 01 Jul '11

01 Jul '11

Hi all, yesterday I submitted a patch to HABS repository just because I met some out-of-date packages in AUR. Then I read the "story" of this group in this mailing list and thought that I can give some help. I think I can take responsibility for a bunch of packages and care for updates, but I need some hints. 1) In order to test for broken packages, do I really need to use the makeworld script? I think it would take too much time! I would prefer to simply compile what I use, also to find if makepkg can resolve dependencies. Launching makeworld in another directory with only my packages would do the job? 2) Past discussions suggest me that the group is centred on a small number of packages to put in a binary repository. It's wonderful to have this, but it takes a very long time. What do you think if some people concentrate in the simplest and fastest task of preparing PKGBUILDs and put them in a place (i.e. AUR) where the core group decide witch package worth an inclusion in the repo? Haskell repository would actually be an expanded and specialised version of Community repo. Anyway I'd prefer the mainter to be the group, not a single. That's only my opinion, of course. 3) For Peter: could you please give some help information on how to use the scripts in https://github.com/peti/arch-haskell/tree/master/scripts ? 4) Why haskell packages in extra depends on ghc-7.0.3 (still in testing)? Tha's all for now. Sorry for my bad English! Cheers Fabio

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AUR Comment for haskell-convertible
by simons＠cryp.to 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

from http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23553 federico_s wrote: Dependencies haskell-containers=0.3.0.0, haskell-old-time=1.0.0.5, haskell-time=1.1.4 are obosolete. --- If you no longer wish to receive notifications about this package, please go the the above package page and click the UnNotify button.

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AUR Comment for haskell-hdbc
by simons＠cryp.to 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

from http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16103 federico_s wrote: Dependencies haskell-bytestring=0.9.1.7, haskell-containers=0.3.0.0, haskell-old-time=1.0.0.5, haskell-time=1.1.4 are obsolete. --- If you no longer wish to receive notifications about this package, please go the the above package page and click the UnNotify button.

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AUR Comment for haskell-hdbc-sqlite3
by simons＠cryp.to 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

from http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17836 federico_s wrote: dependency haskell-bytestring=0.9.1.7 is wrong --- If you no longer wish to receive notifications about this package, please go the the above package page and click the UnNotify button.

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AUR Out-of-date Notification for haskell-ghc-syb-utils
by simons＠cryp.to 30 Jun '11

30 Jun '11

Your package haskell-ghc-syb-utils has been flagged out of date by federico_s [1]. You may view your package at: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37650 [1] - http://aur.archlinux.org/account.php?Action=AccountInfo&ID=29078

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ghc 7.0.3 update complete
by Peter Simons 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Hi guys, we have a new release of cabal2arch, the binary repository for x86 has been re-built, and all updated PKGBUILDs have been uploaded to AUR. As far as I can tell, the transition to GHC 7.0.3 is complete. Take care, Peter

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"Setup: Can't find transitive deps for haddock" with Leksah
by Mathew de Detrich 28 Jun '11

28 Jun '11

Ok, so once again I have tried to compile/install leksah ( http://hackage.haskell.org/package/leksah) with Haskell when using cabal2arch, and just after the package is 'built' (but not yet finalized) I get this error message Configuring leksah-0.10.0.4... Preprocessing library leksah-0.10.0.4... Preprocessing executables for leksah-0.10.0.4... Building leksah-0.10.0.4... Registering leksah-0.10.0.4... Linking dist/build/leksah/leksah ... Running Haddock for leksah-0.10.0.4... Preprocessing library leksah-0.10.0.4... Preprocessing executables for leksah-0.10.0.4... Setup: Can't find transitive deps for haddock Doing a google search, I found that this error has occurred in other places, but only in build log fails for hackagedb packages Note that the .cabal file for Leksah (incorrectly) has enable-shared one of the ghc build options, this needs to be removed for the package to build correctly (up until this error anyways); as well as the issue outlined below (see http://answerpot.com/showthread.php?2552829-Build+error+with+lekash+on+arch… for more info). I have attached a correct PKGBUILD/.install file in this email There also seems to be another error with cabal2arch, that puts the dependency haskell-leksah within the actual haskell-leksah package (of the same version as well) inside the PKGBUILD. I just removed that dependency from PKGBUILD to build leksah

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Questions related dependencies of packages in [extra] & [community]
by Magnus Therning 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

I have 3 questions related to dependencies for haskell packages: 1. I noticed that the haskell packages in [extra] and [community] now depend on a specific revision (7.0.3-2) rather than just a specific version (e.g. 7.0.3) of ghc. Is this to make sure that if there is an ABI change due to a bump in the revision then users don't end up with an unusable system? 2. There are some dependencies on other haskell packages that also require a specific revision (e.g. haskell-haskeline). This does strike me as a good idea, again to prevent inconsistent user systems. It isn't consistent though (again, e.g. haskell-haskeline, its dependency on haskell-terminfo). Is it a bug that should be reported? 3. I also noticed the dependency on 'sh' for the first time. This strikes me as something that ought to be superfluous, isn't it? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force and thousands of slaves. -- Alan Kay

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ghc-7.0.3 & haskell-platform
by Vesa Kaihlavirta 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

Hello to all Haskellites, There's finally an upgraded haskell-platform and corresponding packages in extra/ -- reason for the delay was partly lack of brainpower (I had some time, but didn't have the energy to work with thought). When my summer vacation just started, I got enough quality time with the problem and managed to untangle the mess in minutes, really. What happened recently: - reversed FS#17875, which was alone causing all the trouble :( - ghc-7.0.3-2, haskell-platform-2011.2.0.0-4 went into testing repo - started moving everything else away from extra to community (-testing at first) * this is not many packages, I think it's just darcs, haddock and their dependencies - xmonad, xmonad-contrib and their deps built and uploaded to community-testing ghc-7.0.4 just came out, which fixes some nasty bugs, but sadly, the platform is not there yet. Rémy was doing some work on automating the whole rebuild process (which is currently about 20-30 separate build & install steps when doing manually), but I don't know how that went. --vk (vegai)

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AUR Comment for haskell-pandoc
by simons＠cryp.to 27 Jun '11

27 Jun '11

from http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19804 w1ntermute wrote: Not sure if this is just a translation of the Portuguese error, but I'm getting this error: ==> Starting build()... Setup.hs:1:1: Warning: In the use of `runTests' (imported from Distribution.Simple, but defined in Distribution.Simple.UserHooks): Deprecated: "Please use the new testing interface instead!" Configuring pandoc-1.8.1.1... Setup: At least the following dependencies are missing: citeproc-hs >=0.3.1 && <0.4, dlist >=0.4 && <0.6, json ==0.4.*, pandoc-types ==1.8.*, tagsoup ==0.12.*, texmath ==0.5.*, xml >=1.3.5 && <1.4, zip-archive >=0.1.1.7 && <0.2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build haskell-pandoc. Any idea how to fix this? I manually checked and I have fulfilled all of the dependencies mentioned. --- If you no longer wish to receive notifications about this package, please go the the above package page and click the UnNotify button.

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