September 2013 - arch-haskell

OpenGLRaw dependencies
by Mike Ledger 03 Oct '13

03 Oct '13

Hi haskell-openglraw should depend on libgl, not mesa-libgl. Since it depends on mesa-libgl on systems with nvidia such as mine, it's impossible to install, because nvidia has its own libgl. Thanks, Mike

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New version of cblrepo, update required.
by Magnus Therning 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

Hi all, I've just pushed out a new version of cblrepo, 0.9.2, which handles the recent switchover to Hackage2 on hackage.org. Please update to ensure that the `sync` command continues to work properly. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus But whereas I previously held for Java a cordial dislike borne of having only a cursory notion of how it worked, now my dislike for the language can no longer be called at all "cordial", for familiarity has bred contempt. -- tom Christiansen

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cblrepo: minor corrections and questions
by Xyne 29 Sep '13

29 Sep '13

Hi, I was going to post the following to the cblrepo github page but I do not have an account and I encountered a problem while trying to create one. Corrections: * srcdir and pkgdir variables should be properly quoted in PKGBUILD output * there is a typo in the help message for the convertdb command: "convert and old" -> "convert an old" Questions: * How can I use cblrepo to generate PKGBUILDs from local Cabal files (i.e. packages that are not on Hackage)? Thanks! Regards, Xyne

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Updates and a couple of (temporarily) removals
by Magnus Therning 25 Sep '13

25 Sep '13

Hi all, For a few weeks now haskell-src-meta (and a few other packages) have been keeping back an update of haskell-src-exts and half a dozen or so other packages. Based on this I've now decided to remove, hopefully temporarily the following packages: Graphalyze SourceGraph citeproc-hs haskell-src-meta I hope this won't cause too much trouble for people, and I'm planning on re-adding them again as soon as their upstreams have gotten their act together. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus A system is composed of components: a component is something you understand. -- Professor Howard Aiken

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Silly question (arch-haskell vs cabal)
by Dawid Loubser 23 Sep '13

23 Sep '13

Hi all, As a new user of arch-haskell, I would just like to put the question out there: What is the point of arch-haskell, vs using cabal? Is it simply for the elegance of using a single package manager (pacman) for all packages on my system (Haskell-related and not) or is there some other inherent problem I can expect down the line if I were to use the cabal ecosystem? sorry if this is a redundant question - Dawid Loubser

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Removal of Chart
by Magnus Therning 05 Sep '13

05 Sep '13

I've temporarily removed Chart and its dependencies from the repo. The reason is (taken from the commit message): The new version of Chart (1.0) depends on lens, which in turn has an upper limit on its dependency on split (<0.2.2) which is lower than what is already in the repo (0.2.2). Reason for removal rather than waiting out developers of lens: The current version of lens was released late August 2013 and still depends on split <0.2.2 despite split 0.2.2 being released already in April 2013. This suggests that adding lens at this point risks keeping split back for a long time. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus There's a big difference between making something easy to use and making it productive. -- Adam Bosworth

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New [haskell-happstack] repository
by Nicola Squartini 04 Sep '13

04 Sep '13

Hi, For those of you interested in Haskell for the web, I created using cblrepo a new repository containing all the latest happstack, clckwrks and gitit packages. If you want to use it, add this to your pacman.conf [haskell-happstack] SigLevel = Never Server = ftp://noaxiom.org/$repo/$arch I believe that some of the dependencies now in haskell-happstack should rather go in haskell-core. Here is a minimal list: base16-bytestring haskell-src-meta syb-with-class time-compat Thanks, Nicola Squartini

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