There's an awful lot of packages in that dropped list that I use. I could maintain PKGBUILDs for them myself, either on HABS or AUR directly. -Leif On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Nicolas Pouillard < nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com> wrote:

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 21:34:17 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:

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On 14/01/11 09:13, Magnus Therning wrote:

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I'm currently so completely irritated and annoyed that I had better not comment on this. I'll just post the link to the changeset that highlights the irony of the last few days' discussions:

https://github.com/archhaskell/habs/commit/ba6f8fed84ed8bb2b48897ec868b52920...

Now that I've calmed down a bit...

Peter, don't you think it's a good idea to ask for all the now unsupported packages to removed from AUR as well?

I'm in favor of leaving AUR from now. However one should find a place to clearly point to HABS and the binary-repo.

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On 15/01/11 11:41, Peter Simons wrote:

Hi Leif,

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There's an awful lot of packages in that dropped list that I use. I could maintain PKGBUILDs for them myself, either on HABS or AUR directly.

that would be really great. Yes, please help us maintain those packages!

The contents of the HABS tree determines what goes into the binary repository. If you'd like to see your packages included in there, then HABS is the way to go. Please note that we upload the HABS packages to AUR, too. If you prefer to maintain the packages on AUR, though, then just let us know; we'll orphan them so that you can take them over.

Generally speaking, we need to figure out how to maintain the HABS tree collaboratively, but an obvious way to do it would be the following procedure:

(1) Fork 'archhaskell/habs' on Github.

(2) Modify the PKGBUILDs as you see fit.

(3) Ensure that everything compiles by running 'makeworld'.

(4) Create a pull request to have your changes merged back.

Magnus and I would then pull the changes, run the necessary re-builds, and copy the binary packages to the server so that everyone else gets them, too.

The beauty of this scheme is that basically *everyone* can contribute patches and updates in an efficient and transparent manner, and everyone else can access those changes without having to wait for Magnus or me to do anything. If we are too slow for your taste, then just set up your own binary repository! :-)

I have just one thing to add to this. We are more than happy to hand out commit access straight to the archhaskell/habs repo in the future. But please follow Peter's suggestion first for a few updates. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus

On 16/01/11 05:58, Leif Warner wrote:

I thought it was simply a matter of running cabal2arch on what's on hackage?

In general this is true, but it isn't enough if: - Upstream has put in incomplete dependency information in the CABAL file - You need a pkgrel > 1

I haven't kept up with everything on this list, but I was under the impression there was a file somewhere that told cabal2arch which package names not to prepend with "haskell-". Would anyone know where to configure that? Looking back in the mailing list I found a mention of "Other thoughts: * The translation table of Hackage names to Arch names (currently hardcoded into cabal2arch) should be easily accessible programmatically for use in scripts and other tools (e.g. bauerbill)." but I couldn't find such a list in the cabal2arch source. -Leif

The algorithm is - If the package contains a library, then name it haskell-X - If the package contains only executables, then name it X See 'cbl2pkg' in Distribution.Archlinux. /M

On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Magnus Therning mailto:magnus@therning.org> wrote:

On 15/01/11 11:41, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi Leif, > >> There's an awful lot of packages in that dropped list that I use. I could >> maintain PKGBUILDs for them myself, either on HABS or AUR directly. > > that would be really great. Yes, please help us maintain those packages! > > The contents of the HABS tree determines what goes into the binary > repository. If you'd like to see your packages included in there, then > HABS is the way to go. Please note that we upload the HABS packages to > AUR, too. If you prefer to maintain the packages on AUR, though, then > just let us know; we'll orphan them so that you can take them over. > > Generally speaking, we need to figure out how to maintain the HABS tree > collaboratively, but an obvious way to do it would be the following > procedure: > > (1) Fork 'archhaskell/habs' on Github. > > (2) Modify the PKGBUILDs as you see fit. > > (3) Ensure that everything compiles by running 'makeworld'. > > (4) Create a pull request to have your changes merged back. > > Magnus and I would then pull the changes, run the necessary re-builds, > and copy the binary packages to the server so that everyone else gets > them, too. > > The beauty of this scheme is that basically *everyone* can contribute > patches and updates in an efficient and transparent manner, and everyone > else can access those changes without having to wait for Magnus or me to > do anything. If we are too slow for your taste, then just set up your > own binary repository! :-)

I have just one thing to add to this. We are more than happy to hand out commit access straight to the archhaskell/habs repo in the future. But please follow Peter's suggestion first for a few updates.

/M

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