simons:
Hi Rémy,
this is really quite impressive! Great job. I have some question, and I hope that you can help me understand how the whole things works:
1) The file PKGLIST determines the set of Cabal files to be converted into PKGBUILDs. At the same time, PKGLIST is generated from the set of available PKGBUILDs. This is looks like a circular dependency to me. Am I missing something?
2) The main build step appears to be "makeworld". Is that script capable of performing incremental builds?
To give you a concrete example, assume that makeworld has run successfully and that the entire binary repository is up-to-date. Now, there arrives an update to "hledger-lib", which necessitates that two packages ought to be re-built, namely "hledger-lib" and "hledger". Will running "makeworld" again do that?
Can someone publish what consisten set you've found? It would be interesting to then compare against what cabal says is consistent.