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bytestring-lexing
by Magnus Therning 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

There are two problems with getting bytestring-lexing compiled on Arch, since Don tends to read in here I'll report both here: 1. The PKGBUILD lacks a dependency on 'alex', I'm guessing a 'makedepends' would suffice. 2. Generating the documentation fails. Cheers, M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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Unable to build haskell-franchise from AUR
by Wei Hu 05 Feb '10

05 Feb '10

Hi, Did anyone succeed in building haskell-franchise with ghc 6.12? The PKGBUILD was updated on Jan 30, which seems to suggest we should be able to build it.

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[donotreply@wordpress.com: [Arch Linux and Haskell] Please moderate: "Arch Linux Updates to GHC 6.12"]
by Don Stewart 03 Feb '10

03 Feb '10

----- Forwarded message from "WordPress.com" <donotreply(a)wordpress.com> ----- Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 00:19:04 +0000 From: "WordPress.com" <donotreply(a)wordpress.com> To: dons(a)cse.unsw.edu.au Subject: [Arch Linux and Haskell] Please moderate: "Arch Linux Updates to GHC 6.12" A new comment on the post #274 "Arch Linux Updates to GHC 6.12" is waiting for your approval http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/arch-linux-updates-to-ghc-6-12/ Author : sargon (IP: 86.103.203.159 , 159-203-103-86.dynamic.dsl.tng.de) E-mail : danielehlers(a)mindeye.net URL : Whois : http://ws.arin.net/cgi-bin/whois.pl?queryinput=86.103.203.159 Comment: It first seems to be fine that we now have 6.12, but under the fact that many of the tools and library's haven't adopted this ghc release and the big red stop on the ghc download page for 6.12 it seems unwary. Personally, I currently develop some apps which use gtk2hs and c2hs, which both didn't build with stable releases or in the case of c2hs only with some handwork, but also parts of code running fine with 6.10 didn't build with 6.12. But enough blubbering, is there any way to have 6.10 back or maybe aside from 6.12. Approve it: http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=approve&c=157 Trash it: http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=trash&c=157 Spam it: http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/wp-admin/comment.php?action=spam&c=157 Currently 1 comment is waiting for approval. Please visit the moderation panel: http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/wp-admin/edit-comments.php?comment_status=… ----- End forwarded message -----

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parsec troubles
by Don Stewart 01 Feb '10

01 Feb '10

The version of parsec in [extra] is 3.x, which isn't part of the Haskell Platform. This means a lot of stuff doesn't build :/ Are there any apps (darcs??) that need parsec3? If not, we should switch to parsec 2 vegai? -- Don

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Update to 6.12: public status report
by Don Stewart 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

http://archhaskell.wordpress.com/2010/01/31/arch-linux-updates-to-ghc-6-12/ Tell your friends :)

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Heads up: QC1 dependencies break some distros
by Don Stewart 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Hey John, Just a heads up. Some of your packages depend on QuickCheck 1. The Haskell Platform upcoming release will use QuickCheck 2 by default, and we expect most distros to move to QC2. This means for example, that testpack won't build on Arch Linux (since there's nothing that provides QC1), in turning preventing HDBC and lots of other of your packages. Might be a good time to move to QC2 soon - it provides test case shrinking and other handy features. -- Don

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All AUR packages updated to 6.12 depends
by Don Stewart 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

I've updated all the AUR packages to use 6.12 dependencies. (thanks to the archlinux package for scripting support). I'll write up the big announce of the transition, though we do still need a few tweaks to the community and extra package dependencies. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&arch=i686&repo=&q=haskell&last_upd… So at this point, I'd welcome any build reports of things in AUR that break (set the 'out of date' flag), and CC me. -- Don

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Distribution.ArchLinux maintainer search for the AUR
by Tasha Buckley 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Greetings, The JSON AUR interface now has an msearch method in its API to allow finding all packages by a certain maintainer. So now it's possible to do: http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=msearch&arg=arch-haskell to get all the packages maintained by the arch-haskell devs. The change required in Distribution.ArchLinux is trivial, but I would be willing to provide a darcs patch if it's somehow needed.

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cabal2arch 0.6.1 now generates bad dependencies
by Tasha Buckley 30 Jan '10

30 Jan '10

Hello again, cabal2arch 0.6.1 seems to only be generating dependencies consisting of ghc and haskell-cabal. This is problematic since ghc 6.12 already includes Distribution.Cabal and a few packages have dependencies besides these two :P This should be pretty easy to fix, but I'm willing to help if it's too boring to contemplate.

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Packages in [extra] and [community] with missing deps
by Don Stewart 27 Jan '10

27 Jan '10

E.g. http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/haskell-http/ Should depend on haskell-parsec, haskell-mtl and haskell-network (which used to be provided by GHC). The binary package doesn't list those deps though. A modern package build for this package is on AUR. We'll need to double check the others. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33917 Dependencies ghc haskell-array haskell-bytestring haskell-cabal haskell-mtl haskell-network haskell-old-time haskell-parsec Vegai, do you want me to regenerate on AUR all the [extra] and [community] package builds, via cabal2arch, and you can upload them into the binary repos? -- Don

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