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Ghc 7.10.1 in testing repo
by Magnus Therning 10 Apr '15

10 Apr '15

Hi all, Ghc 7.10.1 has been released, and I've begun the big re-build. I've revived the testing repo for this, so if you're eager you can switch over to it until I'm all done. The config to use is ~~~ [haskell-testing] Server = http://xsounds.org/~haskell/testing/$arch ~~~ I'm building in batches of (about) 25, and as of this writing I'm done with the two first batches. Enjoy! /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

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GHC 7.10, and popular packages like Pandoc
by H. Curry 08 Apr '15

08 Apr '15

On 08/04/2015 07:52, Magnus Therning wrote: > Yeah, my goal is to re-introduce it in ArchHaskell as soon as possible after > an upstream release that's buildable with 7.10.1. You are all more than > welcome to help me keeping an eye on their releases. John has also recently started talk of a new release by the way: <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/pandoc-discuss/650Exs1sCrE> -- twitter: xd1le

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Re: [arch-haskell] Ghc 7.10.1 in repo [was: Re: Ghc 7.10.1 in testing repo]
by Nicola Squartini 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

The fix in github seems to work properly. I see what was the problem now. Are going to switch back to the derived instance for the new db and have a conversion function from old to new? On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 10:31 AM, Nicola Squartini <tensor5(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks! > > Luckily I found the old version of cblrepo in the mirror and I was able to > downgrade. > I'll test the Github change later. > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2015 at 6:16 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus(a)therning.org> > wrote: > >> On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 06:09:30PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: >> > On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 05:42:49PM +0200, Magnus Therning wrote: >> > > On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 02:42:28PM +0900, Nicola Squartini wrote: >> > > > Hi Magnus, and thanks for the upgrade! >> > > > >> > > > You mentioned that cblrepo didn't make it, but since my last upgrade >> > > > today I have version 0.15.0. And most importantly it gives an error >> > > > message: >> > > > >> > > > cblrepo: user error (JSON parsing failed) >> > > > >> > > > whatever subcommand I try, even convertdb. Did the format change >> > > > since the last version? >> > > >> > > Nope, that's something else! I see it as well. >> > > >> > > I fixed the dependencies soon after that earlier email and ran all the >> > > tests. One crucial test is missing though: run cblrepo against an >> > > existing repo. Aeson has changed defaults in the past, I'll see if >> > > it's something like that this time too. >> > >> > Actually it's a change to an underlying data type that has changed >> > from being a String to a wrapped String resulting in the generated >> > JSON instances differing. If I'm thinking correctly about it the >> > required change is minimal, so hopefully I'll find the time to address >> > this soon. >> >> I have a fix in the repo on github[1], would you mind taking it for a >> spin and let me know if it's any good? >> >> /M >> >> [1]: >> https://github.com/magthe/cblrepo/commit/9be2a0e4c76cd7b210a45150ca1c7dcd66… >> >> -- >> Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 >> email: magnus(a)therning.org jabber: magnus(a)therning.org >> twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus >> >> You know, take Lisp. You know, it’s the most beautiful language in the >> world. At least up until Haskell came along. >> -- Larry Wall >> > >

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GHC 7.10 rc3
by Magnus Therning 20 Mar '15

20 Mar '15

For the adventurous I have packaged GHC 7.10 rc3 and uploaded it to http://xsounds.org/~haskell/tmp/ghc-7.10.0.20150316-0.1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Have fun! /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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repo's offline?
by stef204 17 Mar '15

17 Mar '15

Hi, Just recently setup the arch-haskell repo's in pacman.conf. The mirrors worked a couple of days ago--but since yesterday, I am getting the following error message on both xsounds and/or kiwilight. "error: failed retrieving file 'haskell-core.db' from xsounds.org : Failed to connect to xsounds.org port 80: Connection refused" Is there a problem on server side, maintenance, what have you? Or is it something on my side? Thanks.

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Ghc 7.10.1 rc1 packaged
by Magnus Therning 26 Feb '15

26 Feb '15

Just in case you want to take ghc 7.10 for a spin already now you can find the results of my preparations for the official release at http://xsounds.org/~haskell/tmp/ghc-7.10.0.20141222-0.1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Sorry, only for 64-bit for now. /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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How to work with x-revision
by Nicola Squartini 04 Jan '15

04 Jan '15

With the new cblrepo on my haskell-happstack repo, the updates command outputs lines like ... HsOpenSSL: 0.11.1:x0 (0.11.1:x1) ... How do you update the x-revision? `cblrepo add HsOpenSSL,0.11.1` would reset pkg revision to 1, while I want it bumped. I would just ignore the x-revision `cblrepo updates` lines for now, but if that is the right thing to do, then I would like to have a command line option to only output the actual version updates.

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Recent change to Hackage causes delay in updates
by Magnus Therning 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

I just found out the hard way that Hackage has been modified to allow minor edits of .cabal files without bumping the version number. This is not an uncontroversial feature[1]. The current situation is particularly irritating since the changes are reflected only on the web interface and the 00-index, but not in the packages themselves. The first victim of this is pandoc; the dependency on http-client in 1.13.1 has been changed. Previously it required a patch for ArchHaskell, but it doesn't any longer. Well, that is, it doesn't require one for creating the PKGBUILD (based on the 00-index), but it does while building (naturally based on the tar-ball). I'm currently thinking about possible solutions to this. Most likely I'll have to pull in the .cabal from the 00-index into the package and replace the one found in the tar-ball. However, I'd like to think about it a bit more before deciding how to handle it. So, the end result is that there won't be updates until I've had time to modify cblrepo to handle this :-( /M [1]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/52 -- 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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haskell-core behind extra
by David S. 17 Oct '14

17 Oct '14

I am trying to install haddock, which is only available in community and depends on: ghc=7.8.3-2. haskell-core only has ghc=7.8.3-1. If it is not merely user error, is there something I can do to help fix this?

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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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