Using Debian testing with the ghc6-doc package installed (version 6.4-3), I just noticed that I only seem to have the "Hierarchical Libraries" manual, but not the "User's Guide" nor the "Cabal" docs (nor hslibs docs). Those links are broken on the "index.html" page that was installed. Did I do something wrong, or is there a reason that those were omitted? Thanks, Yitz
Yitzchak Gale <gale@sefer.org> writes:
Using Debian testing with the ghc6-doc package installed (version 6.4-3),
It looks to me like this isn't the version from "testing" fwiw, but the version from "unstable". You might want to make sure that your versions of ghc and ghc-doc are consistent.
I just noticed that I only seem to have the "Hierarchical Libraries" manual, but not the "User's Guide" nor the "Cabal" docs (nor hslibs docs). Those links are broken on the "index.html" page that was installed.
I'm using unstable w/ ghc6-doc version 6.4-4, and this link: file:///usr/share/doc/ghc6-doc/html/index.html Seems to give me access to each of the user's guide, hierarchical libraries, old hierarchical libraries, and cabal docs.
Did I do something wrong, or is there a reason that those were omitted?
First I would just check to see if this file exists: file:///usr/share/doc/ghc6-doc/html/users_guide/index.html If not, try upgrading to the new version (maybe Ian can say whether there's any fix between -3 and -4). If that doesn't fix it, then you might start to wonder why you have ghc 6.4 with testing; did you get this -doc package from the Haskell Unsafe repository, or from the unstable repository? Finally, file a bug report against the package with "reportbug" if none of the above works. peace, isaac
Isaac Jones wrote:
Yitzchak Gale writes:
Using Debian testing with the ghc6-doc package installed (version 6.4-3)... (I was missing docs)
It looks to me like this isn't the version from "testing" fwiw, but the version from "unstable"... try upgrading to the new version (maybe Ian can say whether there's any fix between -3 and -4).
Thanks, you are right. Since I had to get 6.4 manually (testing is still stuck way back at 6.2), I forgot that I do not get upgrades automatically.
...did you get this -doc package from the Haskell Unsafe repository... ?
Oooh, nice! I didn't know about this. So now I can indeed get automatic updates. It looks like there is nothing interesting there in testing, though. So I guess I want unstable. For the benefit of other Debian users, Google took me here: http://haskell-unsafe.alioth.debian.org/haskell-unsafe.html where I found the following lines to add to my /etc/apt/sources.list file: deb http://haskell-unsafe.alioth.debian.org/archive/i386 . unstable deb-src http://haskell-unsafe.alioth.debian.org/archive/i386 . unstable If you are using Debian stable, and you want the not-quite-as-old Haskell packages from testing, change "unstable" to "stable" in the above lines. Regards, Yitz
Yitzchak Gale <gale@sefer.org> writes: (on the Haskell Unsafe debian repository)
For the benefit of other Debian users, Google took me here:
http://haskell-unsafe.alioth.debian.org/haskell-unsafe.html
where I found the following lines to add to my /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://haskell-unsafe.alioth.debian.org/archive/i386 . unstable deb-src http://haskell-unsafe.alioth.debian.org/archive/i386 . unstable
If you are using Debian stable, and you want the not-quite-as-old Haskell packages from testing, change "unstable" to "stable" in the above lines.
You can do the same thing with Unstable; just add "unstable" entries to your /etc/apt/souces.list and add a "preferences" file that says you prefer to get everything from "testing" or "stable" or whatever. Then if you want something from Unstable, just say "apt-get install ghc6/unstable". Unstable is more stable than unsafe, btw ;) peace, isaac
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