[arch-haskell] Triggering recompilation automatically?

[Don Stewart]

magnus:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:36 PM, Xyne<xyne at archlinux.ca> wrote:
> > Don Stewart wrote:
> >> magnus:
> >> > On two of my systems I'm refraining from upgrading GHC to 6.10.4 due to
> >> > xmonad-contrib not having been recompiled yet.  I suspect this kind of
> >> > situation is going to become more common the more binary Haskell packages
> >> > that make it into Arch.  Is there some good way to deal with it (besides
> >> > doing a local re-compilation of the package)?
> >> >
> >>
> >> We need an upgrade check list and work plan for maintainers.
> >
> > Do you think it might be a good idea to create a Pacman package group
> > to keep track of Haskell packages which need to be recompiled with each
> > GHC upgrade? Perhaps "ghc-compiled" would be clear enough. This should
> > make it easier to handle such upgrades automatically.
> 
> AFAIU there is enough information in the repo databases to find all
> packages that depend on ghc, would creating a group really make this
> easier or have any other benefits?

Also,

    pacman --remove -c ghc

will already compute the recursive set of packages that depend on ghc,
for removal.