Re: [arch-haskell] Triggering recompilation automatically?

1 Aug 2009


      Don Stewart wrote:
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magnus:
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On two of my systems I'm refraining from upgrading GHC to 6.10.4 due to  
xmonad-contrib not having been recompiled yet.  I suspect this kind of  
situation is going to become more common the more binary Haskell packages 
that make it into Arch.  Is there some good way to deal with it (besides 
doing a local re-compilation of the package)?
We need an upgrade check list and work plan for maintainers.
Do you think it might be a good idea to create a Pacman package group
to keep track of Haskell packages which need to be recompiled with each
GHC upgrade? Perhaps "ghc-compiled" would be clear enough. This should
make it easier to handle such upgrades automatically.

Xyne