[Nix-dev] A Journey into our brand-new Haskell infrastructure: Part III

2015-04-27 Thread Peter Simons
Hi folks, just a quick update for your information: we now have fully automatic updates of "hackages-packages.nix". The process is driven by the "update-nixpkgs.sh" script [1], which is part of the cabal2nix Git repository [2]. Basically, that script re-generates hackages-packages.nix once per hou

Re: [Nix-dev] A Journey into our brand-new Haskell infrastructure: Part III

2015-05-02 Thread Matthias Beyer
Hi, On 27-04-2015 13:40:08, Peter Simons wrote: > just a quick update for your information: we now have fully automatic updates > of "hackages-packages.nix". This sounds really great! > > We do not merge those updates to 'master' automatically, though. Instead, a > human being can decide to do

Re: [Nix-dev] A Journey into our brand-new Haskell infrastructure: Part III

2015-05-02 Thread James Cook
I am usually a fan of merging instead of rebasing, but won't the destroyed history here just be an enormous number of boring automatic snapshots of hackage? That doesn't have much to do with nixpkgs, and surely the history of hackage is being archived somewhere else. (If a bunch of people were usi

Re: [Nix-dev] A Journey into our brand-new Haskell infrastructure: Part III

2015-05-11 Thread Miguel Negrão
Hi Peter Simons cryp.to> writes: > just a quick update for your information: we now have fully automatic updates > of "hackages-packages.nix". The process is driven by the "update-nixpkgs.sh" > script [1], which is part of the cabal2nix Git repository [2]. Basically, that > script re-generates ha

Re: [Nix-dev] A Journey into our brand-new Haskell infrastructure: Part III

2015-05-11 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Miguel, > How does one add older versions of a package to hackage-packages.nix? the list of "extra packages" is maintained in [1]. If you submit a patch or pull request, then the additional version will show up in hackage-packages.nix. Best regards, Peter [1] https://github.com/NixOS/cabal2

Re: [Nix-dev] A Journey into our brand-new Haskell infrastructure: Part III

2015-06-22 Thread William Casarin
Hey Peter, On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 4:40 AM, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi folks, > > just a quick update for your information: we now have fully automatic updates > of "hackages-packages.nix" [...] > > Best regards, > Peter I feel this needs to be said: THANK YOU for making Haskell development a thin

Re: [Nix-dev] A Journey into our brand-new Haskell infrastructure: Part III

2015-06-22 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Hi, Peter, On Mon, Apr 27, 2015, at 07:40 AM, Peter Simons wrote: > Hi folks, > > just a quick update for your information: we now have fully automatic > updates > of "hackages-packages.nix". The process is driven by the > "update-nixpkgs.sh" > script [1], which is part of the cabal2nix Git repos

Re: [Nix-dev] A Journey into our brand-new Haskell infrastructure: Part III

2015-06-24 Thread Peter Simons
Hi Michael, > I notice there haven't been any updates in a few days---is this a > prep-for-release thing, or is there something someone could help with, > or are you just taking a well-earned vacation? the machine that pushes to "haskell-updates" was offline for the last couple of days because