On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 06:52:30PM +0300, Yitzchak Gale wrote:
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?
Because using tar directly is a bit too much work.
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.
Maybe it's not 'the' standard any longer, but it surely is 'a' standard, since it's what tools like `cabal` has to fall back on when a package has a non-trivial Setup.hs.
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?
No, I'm not using a non-standard Setup.hs, but I have so far not had any use for `cabal` since I'm on a platform with a real package manager. /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus I invented the term Object-Oriented, and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind. -- Alan Kay