Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Problems with Haskell Platform

ivan.miljenovic:

Don Stewart writes:

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allbery:

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Supposedly a future Cabal extension will be to, instead of installing, write out a package for a vendor packaging system (yum, apt, yast, what have you). Consider contributing to that effort.

However, we have tools for some distros that do this, and some distro tools support it directly (e.g. "bauerbill --hackage" on Arch Linux knows how to ask cabal2arch to translate the .cabal file).

Contribut to yum to allow pulling from hackage, by calling cabal2yum?

In general, I think this is a bad idea.

I don't know how it is in Arch, but for Gentoo we need to do a lot of QA'ing to make sure our ebuilds generated with hackport work properly

The ones on Arch "just work". I wonder what we're doing differently. cabal2arch knows a *lot* about Arch's package system.

(which is one reason why we don't churn ebuilds out as fast as you generate PKBUILDs). Part of the problem is probably that hackport isn't as polished as cabal2arch, but a few other concerns we need to take care of are:

-- Don