Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-07-01 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:00:21AM +0200, Fabio Riga wrote: > Hi Magnus, > > I will also try your tool. Thanks for the advice. Please let me know how you get on with it. You can report any bugs straight to my email, as I still haven't gotten around to uploading the source to github. /M -- Mag

Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-28 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Fabio, > Note that I tried makeworld script and rsync failed to connect to > andromeda.kiwilight.com but I can ping the server. the rsync server was down, apparently, but Kaiting has fixed the problem. Rsync should now work fine. Take care, Peter __

Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-27 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 12:51:18AM +0200, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi Magnus, > > > Isn't this still the same workflow you had when you wrote [1]? > > no, it's not. Since I'm curious, what improvements have you made to the tools that address the inadequacy you reported back then? Have they just b

Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-26 Thread Fabio Riga
Hi peter, 2011/6/27 Peter Simons : > why do you assume that your builds would be faster than makeworld? now that I looked into the scripts, I understand that I'm quite wrong about time consuming: after the first time, it should be just the same. Sorry for the silly assumption. I'll wait for maki

Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-26 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Leif, > Should we put these instructions up on the README of the GitHub project > for HABS / ArchHaskell ? you are right, we probably should. I didn't do it at the time, because I had the impression that various contributors were using all kinds of different ways to work on HABS, and I didn'

Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-26 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Magnus, > Isn't this still the same workflow you had when you wrote [1]? no, it's not. Take care, Peter ___ arch-haskell mailing list arch-haskell@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell

Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-26 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Fabio, > Packages must be tested. Before updating AUR I would compile the > needed dependencies and only that, faster then makeword. why do you assume that your builds would be faster than makeworld? >> I'll try to describe my work-flow briefly: [...] > > The work flow can feet, but kno

Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-26 Thread Fabio Riga
Hi Magnus, I will also try your tool. Thanks for the advice. Cheers Fabio 2011/6/26 Magnus Therning : > I've written a tool called cblrepo[1] which aims to make it possible > to maintain a consistent set of packages without having to rebuild > to find broken dependencies.  It is currently not us

Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-26 Thread Fabio Riga
Hi Peter, 2011/6/26 Peter Simons : >  > 1) In order to test for broken packages, do I really need to use the >  > makeworld script? I think it would take too much time! > > Unfortunately, distributing Haskell packages is a fairly complicated > affair, mostly because these packages interact with ea

Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-26 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 05:39:54PM +0200, Peter Simons wrote: > I'll try to describe my work-flow briefly: [...] > It's a bit of a mess, but it works okay. :-) Isn't this still the same workflow you had when you wrote [1]? /M [1] http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2011-January/000865.

Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-26 Thread Leif Warner
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 8:39 AM, Peter Simons wrote: > > I'll try to describe my work-flow briefly: > > 1) Clone the 'peti/arch-haskell' repository. > > 2) Run "git submodules init" to set-up the HABS tree. > > 3) Run "cabal update" to download the latest database from hackage. > > 4) Run "ma

Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-26 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Jun 26, 2011 at 04:37:53PM +0200, Fabio Riga wrote: > Hi all, > > yesterday I submitted a patch to HABS repository just because I met > some out-of-date packages in AUR. Then I read the "story" of this > group in this mailing list and thought that I can give some help. I > think I can take

Re: [arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-26 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Fabio, > yesterday I submitted a patch to HABS repository just because I met > some out-of-date packages in AUR. Then I read the "story" of this > group in this mailing list and thought that I can give some help. I > think I can take responsibility for a bunch of packages and care for > up

[arch-haskell] Starting to help

2011-06-26 Thread Fabio Riga
Hi all, yesterday I submitted a patch to HABS repository just because I met some out-of-date packages in AUR. Then I read the "story" of this group in this mailing list and thought that I can give some help. I think I can take responsibility for a bunch of packages and care for updates, but I need