[arch-haskell] Building the Haskell ABS tree

[gdweber at iue.edu]

Thanks for this advice and also Magnus's.

I've made some progress, and have made a pull request
to archhaskell/habs -- my first contribution to the project!

But since then I've pulled from archhaskell/habs and have
conflicts in cblrepo.db.  What is the best thing to do here --
should I try to resolve the conflicts on my end (and make another
pull request?) or will Magnus resolve the conflicts (assuming
he accepts my pull request) and I fetch them later?

Also, I've noticed that most pull requests are from master to master.
Is this the best way, or is it preferred to make a branch for
any set of packages that we want to contribute?

On 2012-Jun-19, Alessandro Pezzoni wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 08:49:55PM -0400, gdweber at iue.edu wrote:
> > I thought I'd give cblrepo a try, and followed the instructions from
> > https://github.com/archhaskell/habs#readme
> > 
> > --but got a bunch of error messages:
> > 
> > $ git clone git://github.com/archhaskell/habs.git
> > Cloning into 'habs'...
> > remote: Counting objects: 28074, done.        
> > remote: Compressing objects: 100% (10477/10477), done.        
> > remote: Total 28074 (delta 16611), reused 27981 (delta 16526)        
> > Receiving objects: 100% (28074/28074), 3.40 MiB | 170 KiB/s, done.
> > Resolving deltas: 100% (16611/16611), done.
> > $ cd habs
> > $ cblrepo sync
> > $ cblrepo pkgbuild $(cblrepo build base|tail -n +2)
> > [...]
> > 
> > Should this prevent me from going further and adding other packages
> > that I want to build that are not in the [haskell] repo?
> > 
> > Do I need to make the PKGBUILD files (and their directories) for all of
> > the packages in the repo before adding my own?
> > 
> > Do I need to actually _build_ the packages that are not my own
> > (in the sense of making the Arch Linux packages that pacman can use,
> > with makeahpkg)?  I certainly hope not!
> 
> To add some packages not in [haskell] you don't really need to make all
> the PKGBUILD files, let alone build them (although what you posted mean
> that we need to update those patches).
> What you need to do is:
> $ git clone git://github.com/archhaskell/habs.git
> $ cd habs
> $ cblrepo sync
> $ cblrepo add NAME,VER ...
> $ cblrepo pkgbuild NAME ...
> $ ./ghc/helpers/adjust-ghc.sh */PKGBUILD
> 
> where NAME is the name of each package not in [haskell] you want to add
> and VER is it's version number (as on hackage). The last step is a
> temporary fix to set the correct ghc version number in the dependencies
> array.
> Then for each of those packages:
> $ cd haskell-NAME
> $ makepkg
> 
> If the build fails you should edit the PKGBUILD and submit a patch... or
> just make a package request.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Alessandro
> 
> 
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