[arch-haskell] packaging the haskell platform: another shot

[Don Stewart]

Hmm. But you might be duplicating work, since I already have a tool to
do this :)

girodt:
> Hi people.
> 
> yesterday I tried to write a PKGBUILD for the haskell-platform. it looks
> like this (work in progress):
> 
> ----
> 
> pkgname=haskell-platform
> pkgver=2010.1.0.0
> pkgrel=1
> pkgdesc="the haskell platform"
> arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
> url="http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/"
> license=('BSD')
> groups=()
> depends=('ghc>=6.12.1')
> makedepends=()
> optdepends=()
> provides=('cabal-install=0.8.0' 'alex=2.3.2' 'happy=1.18.4'
> 'haddock=2.7.2' 'haskell-cgi=3001.1.7.2' 'haskell-fgl=5.4.2.2'
> 'haskell-glut=2.1.2.1' 'haskell-haskell-src=1.0.1.3'
> 'haskell-html=1.0.1.2' 'haskell-hunit=1.2.2.1' 'haskell-mtl=1.1.0.2'
> 'haskell-network=2.2.1.7' 'haskell-opengl=2.2.3.0'
> 'haskell-parallel=2.2.0.1' 'haskell-parsec=2.1.0.1'
> 'haskell-quickcheck=2.1.0.3' 'haskell-regex-base=0.93.1'
> 'haskell-regex-compat=0.92' 'haskell-regex-posix=0.94.1'
> 'haskell-stm=2.1.1.2' 'haskell-xhtml=3000.2.0.1' 'haskell-zlib=0.5.2.0'
> 'haskell-http=4000.0.9' 'haskell-deepseq=1.1.0.0')
> conflicts=()
> replaces=()
> backup=()
> options=()
> install=
> source=(http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/$pkgver/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz)
> noextract=()
> md5sums=('ad96a12535b955f2f5e11769b02e0f76')
> 
> build() {
>   cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
> 
>   ./configure --prefix=/usr
>   make || return 1
>   make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install
> }
> 
> ----
> 
> as you can see, it is supposed to build *all* the platform in one
> bundle, and it uses the "provides" field to list all the packages
> offered by the platform, rather than building its content through
> dependencies.
> 
> If one wants to have the platform version and the bleeding edge of a
> package, it might be problematic. A possible solution could be to use a
> different naming scheme for non-platform versions, like using the prefix
> "hackage-" rather than "haskell-" for example.
> 
> Well I guess there are reasons for not using this approach already, and
> I'm not seeing them. If it is the case, I would be glad to hear them.
> 
> 
> ----
> 
> note : the above script doesn't work, for sure I did some stuff wrong.
> Maybe it could be better to use the cabalized version of the
> haskell-platform and then declare cabal-install, alex, happy and haddock
> as external dependencies - but then if any of those gets pushed ahead of
> the platform, it *will* cause troubles.
> 
> Tom
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