[arch-haskell] On datafiles in libraries

Xyne xyne at archlinux.ca
Fri Jan 7 18:02:24 CET 2011


Xyne wrote:

> The versions of both files could be made to coincide with cabal2arch versions
> to keep the cabal2arch PKGBUILD simple, e.g.:
> 
> source=(..., "http://example.com/data/ghc-provides.${pkgver}.txt",...)

Forget that. It would just force us to bump the versions with each release of
cabal2arch.


> (I'm assuming that the server would have compression enabled, otherwise I would
> use an archive.)

My fingers got ahead of me. I meant that I would compress the file with e.g. xz.
An archive for a single file would be pointless.



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