On 10/20/2011 02:31 PM, Peter Hercek wrote:
If somebody installs everything from haskell, then this would also
allow
installing everything at once (using the group name). Although for
this to
work we might need first to make sure there are no duplicates between
extra/community/haskell repositories. Not sure how trying to install
whole
group would behave when it hits duplicates (like e.g. gtk2hs-gtk in
community and haskell-gtk2hs-gtk in haskell (well, the one in
haskell is
more useful since it provides glade bindings too)).
The goal is to have no such overlap. The problem is to recognise when
such an overlap occurs. There are two situations that ArchHaskell
needs to notice:
1. A Haskell package in core/extra/community is updated to a new version
2. A Haskell package is added to core/extra/community
Is there some way of (semi-)automating this already?
I do not have any tool for this. It would need to follow history in
core/extra/community which (in the worst case) can be obtained from
the web interface or the git of package definitions. I hope there is a
better way since this will not catch binary recompiles. But maybe
there is a different way around it. We could just ignore e.g.
community (if we have all comunity packages in habs), name packages
the same (or maybe putting the community package names in provides is
enough?) and put [haskell] source before [community] source in
pacman.conf. There should be coordination between
extra/community/haskell package sources. Who maintains extra and
community? They should know more.
Anyway my call to create haskell (or ghc) group was not only for
[haskell] but also for community/extra.
If there is no other channel for comunication between maintainers of
different repositories then the best may be to follow what did change in
core/extra/comunity package database. For this the group may be useful
too, but can be (better?) done based on dependency on ghc. Again this
would be a pull approach. A push approach (get notified when something
needs to be done) would be better.
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