[arch-haskell] Adding non-Hackage apps to habs

[Richard Wallace]

Yup, that's totally reasonable.  After a bit of prodding[1] I think I
convinced him to put the current version of aura up on Hackage.  Once that
happens I'll see about getting it added to the cblrepo db in habs.

Thanks,
Rich

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aura/


On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 3:42 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:

> On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Richard Wallace
> <rwallace at thewallacepack.net> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'd like to get aura[1] added to habs.  I didn't realize when I started
> that
> > it isn't up on Hackage yet.  I did some experimenting trying to get it
> added
> > to habs, but it looks like there isn't really a way to add it to the
> > cblrepo.db since it isn't on Hackage.
> >
> > It looks like the only way to get aura added is to create a static
> directory
> > with the PKGBUILD.  Would this be an acceptable approach or should I push
> > the maintainer to get aura added to Hackage instead (he said that he will
> > add version 2.0 to Hackage, but I can try and push to get the current
> > version up on Hackage)?
>
> There is currently no way to add a package that isn't on Hackage.
> This is fairly deeply rooted in `cblrepo` but I have started taking a
> few steps in the direction where it'd be possible to have more than
> one Hackage the idea was to make it possible to use something like
> yackage[1].  Yackage has been deprecated, but on the other hand
> hackage itself is available via hackage :)
>
> The maintenance burden is too high for me to keep any package
> statically in habs:
>
> 1. Updates are not found automatically
> 2. PKGBUILDs can't be generated automatically (IIRC)
>
> Hackage is the way forward!
>
> /M
>
> [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yackage
>
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