Hi, I am a mandriva contributor and the current maintainer of ghc and hugs. haksell modules currently give headhash to find the best way to package it. - we need to register it after installation, the order should be preserved - they have dependencies between them it seems (ie to use missingh I need also to have filepath and hslogger installed). - each package have to be build with each compiler. Feel free to Rpm is not able really to preserve a installation order (partially because bug inside rpmlib). For mandriva, I started some work to make haskell packaging easier. For now this concern only ghc (more popular, and hugs is not working properly: ERROR "/usr/share/hugs/packages/base/Text/ParserCombinators/ReadP.hs":156 - Syntax error in type expression (unexpected `.'), error not happening is using ghc on this file... another topic). First step is to create a set of macros for makor cabal build step, aka configure, build, haddock, test, copy. I provide also a macro to setup trigger and so (un)register module on ghc changes. The second is to automatically find dependencies and report it to rpm. To do that I create a small programme set around cabal: [olivier@andromede haskell-CabalRpmDeps]$ runhaskell Setup.hs configure [...] [olivier@andromede haskell-CabalRpmDeps]$ dist/build/cabalrpmprov/cabalrpmprov haskell(CabalRpmDeps) = 0.0.1 [...] [olivier@andromede haskell-CabalRpmDeps]$ dist/build/cabalrpmreq/cabalrpmreq haskell(unix) = 1.0 haskell(haskell98) = 1.0 haskell(base) = 2.0 haskell(Cabal) = 1.1.6 The haskell(...) names are wanted to match rpm dependencies scheme. The bad things is useally dependencies are find using files list from each packages. But I didn't any solution to query .hi files, and I am not sure they contains information I need. So here I use the the cabal library to query the module from files in builddir, but it doesn't matter, the cabal package cannot be split. Now I have to write scripts around those progs and checking everything works fine. The darcs repos is accessible there (using darcsweb, the page the url to fetch the repos): http://nanardon.zarb.org/darcsweb/darcsweb.cgi?r=haskell-CabalRpmDeps;a=summ... Comments welcome.