Yup, that's totally reasonable. After a bit of prodding[1] I think I convinced him to put the current version of aura up on Hackage. Once that happens I'll see about getting it added to the cblrepo db in habs. Thanks, Rich [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aura/ On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Magnus Therning wrote:

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Hello,

I'd like to get aura[1] added to habs. I didn't realize when I started

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it isn't up on Hackage yet. I did some experimenting trying to get it added to habs, but it looks like there isn't really a way to add it to the cblrepo.db since it isn't on Hackage.

It looks like the only way to get aura added is to create a static

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Richard Wallace wrote: that directory

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with the PKGBUILD. Would this be an acceptable approach or should I push the maintainer to get aura added to Hackage instead (he said that he will add version 2.0 to Hackage, but I can try and push to get the current version up on Hackage)?

There is currently no way to add a package that isn't on Hackage. This is fairly deeply rooted in `cblrepo` but I have started taking a few steps in the direction where it'd be possible to have more than one Hackage the idea was to make it possible to use something like yackage[1]. Yackage has been deprecated, but on the other hand hackage itself is available via hackage :)

The maintenance burden is too high for me to keep any package statically in habs:

1. Updates are not found automatically 2. PKGBUILDs can't be generated automatically (IIRC)

Hackage is the way forward!

/M

[1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yackage

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