In an attempt to better define what it is we are trying to achieve I've re-written the README. Please read and comment on it before I upload it. *********************************************************** The Haskell ABS tree for ArchLinux ================================== This project contains a tree of ArchLinux PKGBUILDs that's used to compile a binary repository of Haskell packages. If you'd like to use that repository, then append the following two lines at the end of your `/etc/pacman.conf` file: [haskell] Server = http://andromeda.kiwilight.com/$repo/$arch If you'd like to build the repository on your own machine, then please make sure that the `devtools` package is installed, and then run the `./makeworld` script that's included in this directory. The script will create a clean ArchLinx installation in a chroot environment at `/var/tmp/chroot-${arch}`, where `${arch}` is either `i686` or `x86_64`, depending on your hardware. It is also possible to cross-compile the i686 repository on 64-bit machines by running the script as follows: `setarch i686 ./makeworld`. The ArchHaskell project ======================= Our main goal is to maintain a binary repository of up-to-date packages taken form [hackageDB][1]. To achieve this we also maintain three repositories of tools, libraries, and scripts: * [cabal2arch][2] is the central tool which converts a CABAL file into a PKGBUILD, and optionally a `.install`. * [archlinux][3] is the main dependency of `cabal2arch`. * [archlinux-web][4] contains a library and a set of scripts that help with various web-related tasks such as updating the information on [hackageDB][1] on what versions of packages that are available for ArchLinux. All discussion around our HABS tree and other packages take place on the [ArchHaskell mailinglist][5]. The available packages ====================== Currently the repository contains less than 100 packages, which is less than 5% of the packages on [hackageDB][1]. We would of course like to cover 100% of [hackageDB][1], but our resources, tools and processes don't allow it yet. Chosing of the current set -------------------------- The current set of packages was chosen in a very unstructured way, and we are still discussing how to decide what packages we take on. Please get involved by joining the [mailinglist][5] is you have opinions on how we should pick the packages we provide. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/hackage.html [2] https://github.com/archhaskell/cabal2arch [3] https://github.com/archhaskell/archlinux [4] https://github.com/archhaskell/archlinux-web [5] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell *********************************************************** /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus