[arch-haskell] How to work with x-revision

[Nicola Squartini]

#2 is the best way. I can't promise a patch though.


On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:00 AM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:

> On Sat, Jan 03, 2015 at 06:02:00PM +0900, Nicola Squartini wrote:
> > With the new cblrepo on my haskell-happstack repo, the updates command
> > outputs lines like
> >
> >     ...
> >     HsOpenSSL: 0.11.1:x0 (0.11.1:x1)
> >     ...
> >
> > How do you update the x-revision? `cblrepo add HsOpenSSL,0.11.1` would
> > reset pkg revision to 1, while I want it bumped.
> > I would just ignore the x-revision `cblrepo updates` lines for now, but
> if
> > that is the right thing to do, then I would like to have a command line
> > option to only output the actual version updates.
>
> I'm looking forward to two feature requests:
>
> 1. Flag for `cblrepo updates` to ignore x-revision changes.  (I have
>    to point out though that *not* keeping up with x-revision changes
>    is very likely to result in build failure, e.g.
>    <http://goo.gl/6aLgfd>).
> 2. Either flag for `cblrepo add` that allows specifying the release on
>    addition, or a change of behaviour such that re-adding a version
>    results in a bump of the release.
>
> If either is accompanied by a patch I'd be even more thankful ;)
>
> /M
>
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