[Haskell-beginners] Stack minimal dependency specification, or dependency tree output

[Mark Fine]

You can ask stack to build only dependencies and use that as a cache layer
for docker. We do something like:

FROM haskell:7.10

WORKDIR /app

COPY LICENSE Setup.hs simple-app.cabal stack.yaml /app/
RUN stack setup
RUN stack build simple-app --only-dependencies

COPY main /app/main
COPY src /app/src
RUN stack build simple-app --copy-bins


On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Lyndon Maydwell <maydwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Beginners,
>
>
> I'm finally getting my hands dirty with Stack, and am using it in
> conjunction with Docker, but not with the built-in docker functionality.
>
> My Dockerfile is constructed so that it first installs a whole bunch of
> dependencies globally, like so:
>
> ...
> RUN stack install HUnit
> ...
>
> Then after that, installs the project:
>
> ...
> COPY . /app
> WORKDIR /app
> RUN stack install
> ...
>
> This means that on repeated docker builds the app build and install time
> should be limited to just the application itself, because the dependency
> builds were cached. Which is great! However, I'm currently generating the
> list of dependencies just by looking at the output of the stack build of
> the app, and this displays everything as a flat list.
>
> I'd like to see some kind of tree instead, so that when I pre-install the
> dependencies, I can specify a minimal list, rather than a whole slew of
> dependencies that would be pulled in transitively anyway.
>
> Is there an easy way to do this?
>
>
> Regards,
>
>  - Lyndon
>
>
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