Re: [arch-haskell] working with HABS

Hi Magnus -- On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 02:41:01PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:

On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Linus Arver wrote:

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Hello,

I want to compile HABS packages with the 'makeahpkg' script but the uses of 'sudo' require me to enter my root password every once in a while. This is annoying because I cannot just do

./makeahpkg -c -- $(cblrepo build base | tail -n +2)

and let it run overnight. In fact, at one instance the script just exited on its own because I did not enter the root pasword in time. Is there a workaround for this?

The easiest way is to remove password prompting while building. That does compromise security somewhat though.

How do you do remove password prompting entirely? I could change the timeout for sudo but that feels a bit hacky.

You can also try to run the script as root, then `sudo` becomes a no-op. The building uses a chroot, which is why root access is necessary.

I tried running the script as root, but then `makeahpkg` complains: ==> Creating updated database file 'repo.db.tar.gz' *** Skipping build in /home/l/prog/foreign/habs/haskell-tagsoup *** Building in /home/l/prog/foreign/habs/haskell-th-lift :: Synchronizing package databases... repo 23.3 KiB 0.00B/s 00:00 [##############] 100% haskell 256.1 KiB 1778K/s 00:00 [##############] 100% core is up to date extra 1529.6 KiB 2.63M/s 00:01 [##############] 100% community 2.0 MiB 3.10M/s 00:01 [##############] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... there is nothing to do ==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is a BAD idea and can cause permanent, catastrophic damage to your system. If you wish to run as root, please use the --asroot option. ==> ERROR: Could not download sources. This is probably from the call to "pacman -Syu --noconfirm" from line 598 in /usr/bin/makechrootpkg.

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Also does anyone have recommendations for web storage services that would work well with hosting my build of HABS packages? I've tried DropBox but the current AUR package for it is unusable, at least with Xmonad.

There is always the option of using the pre-built packages. Information can be found at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines#Haskell_pack...

What I want to do is contribute built packages to HABS, as per your message in http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2012-March/001954.html . Maybe I should start small and just manually give you links to packages one at a time, but I imagine this could get tedious at some point... whereupon I would need to find decent web storage/hosting. -L

/M

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