Any solution to pinned packages + config.ml? Is there some basic reading I
should do?

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Sean Grove <[email protected]> wrote:

> Great, thanks for that. I actually need to pin a bunch of packages (e.g.
> https://github.com/mirage/mirage-bootvar-xen/issues/15) to get the
> unkernel booting appropriately, but I don’t see how to specify that in
> config.ml - I’m just listing package names, and so I suspect that someone
> else trying out the project will run into issues with the wrong version of
> the package - what's the solution here?
>
> On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Richard Mortier <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> On 21 February 2016 at 15:53, Thomas Gazagnaire <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>> >>  foreign
>> >>    ~packages:[
>> >>        "irmin", ["irmin.mem"];
>> >>        "tls", ["tls.mirage"];
>> >>     ]
>> >>    "Unikernel.Main" ...
>> >>
>> >> Then it's obvious which OPAM package provides each library and it's
>> >> harder for them to get out of sync.
>> >
>> > That's a good idea. Could even be an optional argument as most of the
>> time the opam package and findlib library have the same names.
>> >
>>
>> Hm. Several libraries have multiple parts though.
>>
>> Also are we going to make it clear that we're mandating only libraries
>> expressed as OPAM packages can be used with Mirage?
>>
>> (I like the idea of making the link between the package and the
>> library clearer in the common case though.)
>>
>> --
>> Richard Mortier
>> [email protected]
>>
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