[arch-haskell] collaborative HABS maintenance

[Magnus Therning]

On 16/01/11 05:58, Leif Warner wrote:
> I thought it was simply a matter of running cabal2arch on what's on
> hackage?

In general this is true, but it isn't enough if:

 - Upstream has put in incomplete dependency information in the CABAL file
 - You need a pkgrel > 1

> I haven't kept up with everything on this list, but I was under the
> impression there was a file somewhere that told cabal2arch which package
> names not to prepend with "haskell-".  Would anyone know where to
> configure that?
> Looking back in the mailing list I found a mention of
> "Other thoughts:
> * The translation table of Hackage names to Arch names (currently hardcoded
>  into cabal2arch) should be easily accessible programmatically for use in
>  scripts and other tools (e.g. bauerbill)."
> but I couldn't find such a list in the cabal2arch source.
> -Leif

The algorithm is

 - If the package contains a library, then name it haskell-X
 - If the package contains only executables, then name it X

See 'cbl2pkg' in Distribution.Archlinux.

/M

> On Sat, Jan 15, 2011 at 3:55 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org
> <mailto:magnus at therning.org>> wrote:
>
>     On 15/01/11 11:41, Peter Simons wrote:
>     > Hi Leif,
>     >
>     >> There's an awful lot of packages in that dropped list that I use.
>     I could
>     >> maintain PKGBUILDs for them myself, either on HABS or AUR directly.
>     >
>     > that would be really great. Yes, please help us maintain those
>     packages!
>     >
>     > The contents of the HABS tree determines what goes into the binary
>     > repository. If you'd like to see your packages included in there, then
>     > HABS is the way to go. Please note that we upload the HABS packages to
>     > AUR, too. If you prefer to maintain the packages on AUR, though, then
>     > just let us know; we'll orphan them so that you can take them over.
>     >
>     > Generally speaking, we need to figure out how to maintain the HABS tree
>     > collaboratively, but an obvious way to do it would be the following
>     > procedure:
>     >
>     >  (1) Fork 'archhaskell/habs' on Github.
>     >
>     >  (2) Modify the PKGBUILDs as you see fit.
>     >
>     >  (3) Ensure that everything compiles by running 'makeworld'.
>     >
>     >  (4) Create a pull request to have your changes merged back.
>     >
>     > Magnus and I would then pull the changes, run the necessary re-builds,
>     > and copy the binary packages to the server so that everyone else gets
>     > them, too.
>     >
>     > The beauty of this scheme is that basically *everyone* can contribute
>     > patches and updates in an efficient and transparent manner, and
>     everyone
>     > else can access those changes without having to wait for Magnus or
>     me to
>     > do anything. If we are too slow for your taste, then just set up your
>     > own binary repository! :-)
>
>     I have just one thing to add to this.  We are more than happy to
>     hand out
>     commit access straight to the archhaskell/habs repo in the future.  But
>     please
>     follow Peter's suggestion first for a few updates.
>
>     /M
>
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