[arch-haskell] For the brave: alternative versioning in testing repo

Nicola Squartini tensor5 at gmail.com
Wed May 6 07:59:09 UTC 2015


It's for the [haskell-happstack] repository, I need to update the
dependencies on [haskell-core] packages, Diff is just one example. As I
understand the new format introduced after the versioning change does not
support x-revisions for distro pkgs yet. Or am I not using it correctly?

On Wed, May 6, 2015 at 2:28 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:

> On 6 May 2015 at 03:07, Nicola Squartini <tensor5 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > A problem raised when I tried to updates my repository:
> >
> >     $ cblrepo add -d Diff,0.3.2_0,1
> >     option -d: Cannot parse 'Diff,0.3.2_0,1' as PKG,VER,REL
> >
> > Seems like cblrepo doesn't parse the underscore character in the version
> > field.
>
> Unfortunately old x-revisions aren't available in the Hackage index
> file, so I can't really see the value of adding with an explicit
> x-revision.  That's probably just my limited imagination though ;)  Is
> it just that you want to be able to pass the output of `cblrepo list`
> back into `cblrepo add`, or did you have some other use case in mind?
>
> /M
>
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