Paolo Martini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello, > > OK good news! Here's a patch to make cabal-install use the tarball > index format discussed in the previous email. > > (I finally gave up in trying to do a whole refactoring, which I > started from scratch many times, and started a more seamless > integration of ideas in the existing code.) > > Since we don't rely on any program to do the QA, check that the > packagename directory and the name of the tarball and the name inside > the .cabal file are the same case-sensitively before adding it. > > The instructions for those eager of making a repository:
> 1. mkdir -p packages/packagename > 2. cp package-version.tar.gz packages/packagename/ > 3. GOTO 1 for each package you want in the repository > 4. tar --create --gzip --file packages/00-index.tar.gz --exclude > '*.tar.gz' --directory packages/ . > # don't miss the last dot in the above command! Coolness! Simple & elegent. Have you played w/ the cabal-server-install program at all yet? > I need help on one matter--I am not sure about pkgUrl: > > If I enable multiple repositories and scan the local hierarchy after > having downloaded the files from all of them, it becomes impossible > to map files to urls. > > So the solution could be having multiple repositories whose names are > the urlEncoded strings of the actual repositories' urls. > I think it's worth it to enable multiple repositories right away. Go for it! > If having just one repository doesn't bother anyone too much, I'd like > to know what do you think it's worth doing next. Also, I'd like to > have some feedback on this patch, I am not sure I did not make any > mistake! I haven't had a chance to look at it. I hope someone else does. Please do push it to the repo and get people playing with it :) Is there a properly-formated repo on hackage or somewhere that people can play with? Does cabal-install come preconfigured to find this repo? peace, isaac _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
