Re: [Haskell-cafe] Cabal, tar and uploading to Hackage

Magnus Therning wrote:

Lately my attempts at creating tar-balls for uploading to Hackage have been failing. I use the standard `./Setup.hs sdist` method to generate tar-balls, but apparently that uses `/usr/bin/tar` (GNU tar), which defaults to the 'gnu' format, while Hackage requires the 'ustar' format.

Is there some special reason why you use Setup.hs for this? I'm not sure why you say that is the "standard". From what I understand, the standard way has been cabal dist for quite some time. Are you using a custom Setup.hs (which often results in problems and should be avoided unless absolutely necessary), and have you checked that cabal dist doesn't do the right thing? Regards, Yitz