By this, I mean, build them locally through the Arch scripts, which seem reasonable; rather than mixing in a .cabal tree if I can help it.
On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 9:07 AM, Al Matthews <prolep...@gmail.com> wrote: > > It's not clear to me, from reading your email what you actually want, > how you tried to get there, and what problems you ran into. > > Yes, I left out some detail. I did indeed get `pacman` failures based on > ghc-7.6. There were a number. I'll review them as you suggest. > > > Of course you can help with step 2 yourself by cloning habs and using > `cblrepo` to add them and verify they build properly. > > That makes sense. I can't `man pacman` nor `man cblrepo` at the moment, > but I imagine I can also install these packages directly from the local > chroot that is created in the build process? This (default; no option -l > <dir>) layout confuses me more than I would prefer. That would be my goal: > to be able to build the packages locally if required. Presumably I can also > be helpful by indicating that this process succeeds. > > > On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 7:31 AM, Magnus Therning <mag...@therning.org>wrote: > >> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:54 PM, Al Matthews <prolep...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > Hi list. I'll ask as naively as possible in hopes of helping (me but >> also) >> > someone else. >> > >> > Being new, I've managed to hose my Arch haskell installation fairly >> well. >> >> I highly doubt it isn't something we can help you fix! :) >> >> > I've been tracking haskell-core >> > >> > [haskell-core] >> > ###Server = http://www.kiwilight.com/haskell/core/$arch >> > Server = http://xsounds.org/~haskell/core/$arch >> > >> > and from there >> > >> > # Pacman won't upgrade packages listed in IgnorePkg and members of >> > IgnoreGroup >> > >> > #IgnorePkg = haskell-aeson 0.6.2.1-3 >> > #IgnorePkg = haskell-attoparsec 0.10.4.0-4 >> > #IgnorePkg = haskell-blaze-builder 0.3.3.0-1 >> > #IgnorePkg = haskell-blaze-html 0.6.1.2-1 >> > #IgnorePkg = haskell-blaze-markup 0.5.1.6-1 >> > #IgnorePkg = haskell-data-default 0.5.3-2 >> > #IgnorePkg = haskell-data-default-instances-dlist 0.0.1-2 >> > #IgnorePkg = haskell-dlist 0.5-27 >> > #IgnorePkg = haskell-graphviz >> > [etc] >> > >> > , this because I was trying to maintain an installation of Pandoc which >> > relied on "older" >> > packages by the time I had managed to install something newer, maybe >> > bloomfilter. >> > >> > Anyway, by now ghc is up to 7.8.2 and I remain with a lot of >> built-depends >> > over 7.6.3. pacman is upset. >> > >> > I hesitate to hack in anything from [haskell-testing] until I'm more >> > conceptually clear. >> >> [haskell-testing] is currently completely empty. When GHC 7.8 was >> release I emptied testing into core. >> >> > I even built big swaths of habs, on my local, to see what would happen, >> so, >> > guidance as regards the intended purpose, or advanced use, of some of >> these >> > tools is appreciated. Pointers to relevant documentation or system >> files are >> > naturally most welcome. >> >> The main thing is probably to fully understand what your goal is. >> It's not clear to me, from reading your email what you actually want, >> how you tried to get there, and what problems you ran into. >> >> If it's as simple as you just wanting to upgrade your system? >> 1. Make sure you have no Haskell packages on your ignore list. >> 2 Try a straight upgrade. If that fails with `pacman` telling you >> that some package depends on ghc-7.6 then that most likely means the >> package in question has been dropped from [haskell-core]. Raise an >> issue for each such package you can't live without >> (https://github.com/archhaskell/habs/issues). >> 3. Remove all such packages you can live without. >> 4. Wait until someone's gotten around to re-add the packages that are >> crucial to you, then restart from 1. >> >> Of course you can help with step 2 yourself by cloning habs and using >> `cblrepo` to add them and verify they build properly. >> >> /M >> >> -- >> Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 >> email: mag...@therning.org jabber: mag...@therning.org >> twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus >> > >
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