Re: [arch-haskell] Layout of ABS tree for Haskell packages?

12 Oct 2010


      On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 11:41, Gour D.  wrote:
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On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:42:50 +0100
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> "Magnus" == Magnus Therning  wrote:
Magnus> I've just downloaded all 1937 packages maintained by
Magnus> arch-haskell on AUR, and I'm about to put them all in a git
Magnus> repository.  Before doing that I thought I'd ask if anyone has
Magnus> suggestions on the directory hierarchy in that repo?
What do you think about mimic the Hackage hierarchy?
It wouldn't be possible to mimic it completely since hackage allows
several categories for a single package.  However, the packages in AUR
all have a single category (even though I'm not sure how they get
them), maybe we could use that.
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Magnus> The only criterion I can think of is that we'd probably would
Magnus> want binary and source packages separated in some way.
I agree with that. Binaries could go all in one bin directory (there
is no binary category in Hackage ;) )
So maybe something like this?

habs/
  bin/
    lib/
      /
      /
      ...
    system/
      <package k>/
      /
      ...
  aur
    lib/
      <package m>/
      /
      ...
    system/
      <package n>/
      /
      ...
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Magnus> Any thought or comments on this.  I'm particularly interested in
Magnus> comments from people who have experience with working with the
Magnus> ABS-related tools.
I don't have that, but when I was using Gentoo, its overlays were
structured in a similar way.
Oh, don't worry about that comment of mine, *all* suggestions are
welcome.  My knowledge of the ABS tools is *very* limited, so I don't
want to inadvertently come up with something that forces us to do a
lot more tool development that we want to.

/M

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