On 08/10/10 23:04, Peter Simons wrote: [...]
Do we give up on having all of Hackage in AUR and instead rely on tools like bauerbill?
This is interesting idea...
Bauerbill's Hackage support works great. However, in my understanding Bauerbill will generally install the latest version of every package. This is a problem for us, because sometimes we need to withhold updates for a while until all users of the package have updated their packages to cope with the latest version. This is easy to do on AUR, where we can choose which packages to update in which order, but I don't see how that could be accomplished with Bauerbill, unless Xyne is willing to add some major features to the program.
Yes, that is a major drawback indeed.
Do we try to do something like what Xyne suggested--set up a Haskell ABS and publish pre-compiled packages in [arch-haskell]?
...however, in the spirit of Arch (in comparison with the Gentoo which I left 3yrs ago), I consider that having kind of 'Haskell overlay' with binary packages would be very nice...
Yes, I agree that this is probably the best solution. Arch was designed to work that way. How difficult is it to set up a repository? Does anyone know how to do that?
I think there are a few Arch devs reading this list, at least a TU or two, hopefully they can offer some more information. AFAIU it's not much to it really. An ABS-like tree (perhaps kept in a Darcs repo for extra points :-) and a place to upload binary packages and the repo DB to. Cheers, M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe