February 2014 - arch-haskell

additions to ghc's provides list?
by Peter Johnson 02 Mar '14

02 Mar '14

Since the Arch ghc package includes binaries for hsc2hs and haddock, should these be added to the "provides=" list in its PKGBUILD? pete

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GHC 7.8 build available for test
by Magnus Therning 13 Feb '14

13 Feb '14

Yesterday I spent some time on putting together a source package for GHC 7.8. Since there are no tar-balls released for it yet it builds from git (the ghc-7.8 branch). You can find the source package attached to this emails (hopefully it makes it through to the mailing list OK) and the binary packages at http://xsounds.org/~haskell/testing/ If you try it out and find any issues with it, then please let me know so I can make sure they are addressed. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. -- The Peter Principle

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Removal of support for old repo paths
by Magnus Therning 09 Feb '14

09 Feb '14

I've just cleaned up the repo slightly. No one should notice anything, unless you have kept the old repo paths in your makepkg.conf. Then you need to change to the new paths. The old paths, which don't work any more: Server = http://xsounds.org/~haskell/$arch The new paths, which continue to work just fine: Server = http://xsounds.org/~haskell/core/$arch /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus What gets measured, gets done. -- Tom Peters

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No updates for a little while
by Magnus Therning 06 Feb '14

06 Feb '14

Hi all! Unfortunately my current computer situation means I won't be able to make any updates to ArchHaskell until early March. I'm looking into options for getting my hands on an ArchLinux system, e.g. whether kiwilight is back up, if I succeed I'll get back to pushing out updates earlier. Hopefully the situation will be sorted well in time for the GHC 7.8 release. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Perl is another example of filling a tiny, short-term need, and then being a real problem in the longer term. -- Alan Kay

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makechrootpkg and $http_proxy?
by Magnus Therning 02 Feb '14

02 Feb '14

Hi all, I've attempted to compile some updates on a machine at work. However I found that `makechrootpkg` doesn't seem capable of using `$http_proxy`. All other tools involved in building an maintaining a build chroot work just fine (`mkarchroot` and `arch-chroot`). I tried posting a question to arch-general about it, but the moderation there is starting to drive me crazy. Does anyone on this list know? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus Make input easy to prepare and output self-explanatory. - The Elements of Programming Style (Kernighan & Plaugher)

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