[arch-haskell] Bootstrapping a cblrepo.db / custom repository

[Rudy Matela]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 8:50 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 08:44:22PM +0200, Nicola Squartini wrote:
> > You have to add each dependency individually, even though they are all
> > provided by GHC. In your example:
> >
> > $ cblrepo add -g base,4.7.0.1 -g containers,0.5.5.1
> > -g pretty,1.1.1.1 template-haskell,2.9.0.0
>
> Indeed you have to manually add all the basic modules.
>
> In the cblrepo github repo you can find a list of packages for
> 7.8.2[1].  I still have to add one for 7.8.3.
>
> Another option is to look at the database in habs.  Either you run
> `cblrepo -g --no-repo` and pipe it to some suitable sed/awk script, or
> you just copy the first lines from the database (the database has
> three sections, of which we only use 2, the first one contains the
> ones added with -g).

Thanks Nicola and Magnus,

I'll try those options and see which works best!