On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Peter Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I recently upgraded GHC on one of my machines and therefore had to > reinstall all installed packages. Granted, cabal-install makes this a lot > easier nowadays, but I saw that there's a ticket [1] for > adding a "world" file (speaking in Gentoo terminology) that records all > user requested packages, so I gave that a try. You can find a patch for > the Head branch that adds preliminary support here: > http://darcs.monoid.at/cabal-install/ > > Basically the patch adds Distribution.Client.World that provides an > /insert/, /delete/, and /getContents/ interface. /World.insert/ is called > from Distribution.Client.Install upon successful build. > What's currently missing is the implementation of a cabal command that > rebuilds the package list from ~/.cabal/world (or some other location > set by the currently also missing configuration options). > > 1. The world file only contains the list of package names and versions > as requested by the user. I suppose that's all that's needed for > rebuilding, right?
We also need the values for the flags specified by the user, i think. _______________________________________________ cabal-devel mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cabal-devel
