September 2014 - arch-haskell

Thanks and some package requests
by Skottish 29 Sep '14

29 Sep '14

First off, thank you very much Magnus for maintaining this repo; It's a great help. As well, thank you to everyone that has contributed to it. I have a few package requests that are confirmed working with the repo: html-conduit which depends on tagstream-conduit text-format which depends on double-conversion regex-tdfa-text which will be useful until regex-tdfa supports Data.Text{,.Lazy} I'm not sure who's in charge of the arch-haskell mailing list page, but everything defaults to http when https is available. It may be helpful to switch that over. Thanks

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Thoughts on using docker to build?
by Magnus Therning 18 Sep '14

18 Sep '14

I've lately been considering moving away from using `makechrootpkg` when building packages for ArchHaskell. I've been playing with docker, and the last few updates have been built using a few helper scripts I've put together. Does anyone on the list have any thoughts on docker? Would you consider it suitable and a good replacement for the chroots that have been used in the past? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus The results point out the fragility of programmer expertise: advanced programmers have strong expectations about what programs should look like, and when those expectations are violated--in seemingly innocuous ways--their performance drops drastically. -- Elliot Soloway and Kate Ehrlich

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Pandoc fails creating document with citation styles
by Ray Rashif 11 Sep '14

11 Sep '14

Hi guys I must admit that Haskell is unfamiliar territory and requires far more time to debug -- time that I do not have. For this reason I must seek your help in troubleshooting an issue with pandoc, citations and citation styles. A while ago when the Haskell stuff were all in the official repos I successfully used pandoc with citations (--biblio) and *.csl style files (--csl $file). [1] Now that I have moved over to using the arch-haskell repos (after a hiatus from markdown), I see that this no longer works: ~$ pandoc test.md -o test.pdf --biblio test.bib --csl apa.csl pandoc-citeproc: error while parsing the XML string pandoc: Error running filter pandoc-citeproc In fact, none of the example styles included inside haskell-pandoc-citeproc works and they output the same error. You may get the test files from [1] and one or more csl files to test from /usr/share/i386-linux-ghc-7.8.3/pandoc-citeproc-0.5/tests/. I also reported this upstream [2] and it looks like the problem is downstream -- either my system, the dependency chain, or a packaging error somewhere. I would appreciate it if someone else could first reproduce the error, and then we can try to fix it. Thanks! Regards [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35657 [2] https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/pandoc-discuss/76DoTPISouA/6uAyjvTz82… -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

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is there some easy way to ignore all haskell- packages?
by Martin DeMello 04 Sep '14

04 Sep '14

I regularly get into version pinning conflicts with my haskell- packages. The current one has been going on for some days now: $ sudo pacman -Syu :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date haskell-core is up to date haskell-happstack is up to date infinality-bundle is up to date infinality-bundle-fonts is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... looking for inter-conflicts... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: haskell-lens: requires haskell-aeson=0.7.0.6-9 :: haskell-lens: requires haskell-attoparsec=0.11.3.4-5 :: haskell-lens: requires haskell-bifunctors=4.1.1.1-14 :: haskell-lens: requires haskell-comonad=4.2.2-1 :: haskell-lens: requires haskell-contravariant=1.1-1 :: haskell-lens: requires haskell-free=4.9-7 :: haskell-lens: requires haskell-profunctors=4.2.0.1-1 :: haskell-lens: requires haskell-scientific=0.3.2.2-1 :: haskell-lens: requires haskell-semigroupoids=4.2-1 I don't so much mind that this is happening, as that it blocks my entire rest-of-system upgrade. Is there any easy way to recursively ignore everything that is unsatisfiable? martin

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