[arch-haskell] Adding another data file for dependency "hints"

[Rémy Oudompheng]

2011/1/2 Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org>:
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 20:55, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 2010/12/30 Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 09:08, Rémy Oudompheng <remyoudompheng at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> In order to get improved PKGBUILDs I thought we could have a better
>>>> usage of the dependency resolution capabilities in the Cabal library,
>>>> this is summed up in this commit
>>>>
>>>>  http://github.com/remyoudompheng/archhaskell/commit/2e614b2
>>>>
>>>> This adds an extra file, platform-provides.txt, that lists our
>>>> preferred versions for various packages. For the moment I have filled
>>>> it with the contents of Haskell Platform.
>>>
>>> Is it worth considering downloading this file dynamically, rather than
>>> compiling it into the executable statically?
>>
>> It's been some time since these lists were not compiled in the
>> executable. I have added a flag to cabal2arch (in my copy
>> http://github.com/remyoudompheng/cabal2arch) to handle a custom
>> directory or URL where these files could be stored. I am using mtl for
>> error handling.
>
> Why not remove the file from github completely and host it in a
> well-known location then?

Because I just did that yesterday :) I have put examples of files at
  http://dev.archlinux.org/~remy/arch-haskell/

For example
  cabal2arch --sysinfo=http://dev.archlinux.org/~remy/arch-haskell/hp2011.0
will produce PKGBUILDs which are forced to use library versions
specified in HP2011.0

while cabal2arch --sysinfo=http://dev.archlinux.org/~remy/arch-haskell/default
will use the behaviour we had before.
-- 
Rémy.