Thank you, this worked like a charm! (Modulo using dist/doc/html instead of dist/doc). Now all my packages have online documentation. One day I'd still like to find out why it didn't build automatically. But as long as documentation builder doesn't generate a log saying what problem it thought could not be solved, there is no way of knowing really. Thanks again, -- Peter Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
On 05/01/14 18:15, Peter Selinger wrote:
I agree. Two of my packages are in your list: easyrender and newsynth (both have "Nothing" for a reason in your list).
If a package has Nothing for a reason, that means that no build log is available. From what I've read yesterday, it's a problem with their report system and I think it happens when cabal can't find dependency candidates for your package. I link to a comment on GitHub in my opening post which explains this.
The problem for me is that, although you seem to have access to build logs, I don't. I have not found the way to access the hackage build logs for my packages or their documentation. Could you let me know where I can find them?
I do not have any special access to Hackage, I didn't even log in. See my opening post for how to access the build log or see my reply to Sven for an example. I really think there should be a button on the site for this. If the build logs existed for newsynth, you could do the following: check general build status[1] then check the first report[2] then check the build log for the first report[3]. If the build status is empty, you won't have any reports.
Check out [4][5][6] for an example on a package which failed to build and has logs.
Effectively, the Nothing in my report indicates no build status.
For both packages, the documentation builds just fine on my local machine. It also builds fine in a virtual machine, under Windows and Ubuntu. Since I don't have access to Hackage's build logs, I cannot really figure out why the documentation is not building there. This is what has prevented me from fixing it.
I suspect Hackage fails to resolve your dependencies, at least that what seems to be causing no logs. See [7] for a comment and [8] for an existing GitHub issue (although one without any activity).
I even created "candidates" for the packages, before uploading the packages to the main index. Again, the documentation did not build, and again, I could not find any logs to tell me what went wrong. So the whole "candidate" mechanism has so far been useless to me.
You mentioned that there is a way to upload the documentation manually. I'd love to do that. But how? I don't see any buttons or links on the package maintainer's pages that would allow me to do that.
I post a link in my opening post to a comment about this. See [9]. I just tried to do it for one of my packages (yi-monokai-0.1.1.1) and here are the steps I took:
1. cd ~/programming/yi-monokai 2. cabal configure && cabal build && cabal haddock --hyperlink-source 3. cd dist/doc 4. mv yi-monokai yi-monokai-0.1.1.1-docs 5. tar -c -v -z -Hustar -f yi-monokai-0.1.1.1-docs.tar.gz yi-monokai-0.1.1.1-docs 6. curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/x-tar' -H 'Content-Encoding: gzip' --data-binary '@yi-monokai-0.1.1.1-docs.tar.gz' 'http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@hackage.haskell.org/package/yi-monokai-0.1.1.1/docs'
With these steps, my little package now has documentation. There's some info on format at [10]. I might write a small blog post outlining these steps later as it was not easy to figure out.
Any help appreciated, -- Peter
[1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/newsynth-0.1.0.0/reports/ [2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/newsynth-0.1.0.0/reports/1 [3]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/newsynth-0.1.0.0/reports/1/log [4]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yi-monokai-0.1.1.1/reports/ [5]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yi-monokai-0.1.1.1/reports/1 [6]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yi-monokai-0.1.1.1/reports/1/log [7]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/145#issuecomment-30129142 [8]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/142 [9]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/145#issuecomment-29468613 [10]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/56 -- Mateusz K.