Broken documentation on Hackage.

[Peter Selinger]

Thank you, this worked like a charm! (Modulo using dist/doc/html
instead of dist/doc). Now all my packages have online documentation.

One day I'd still like to find out why it didn't build automatically.
But as long as documentation builder doesn't generate a log saying
what problem it thought could not be solved, there is no way of
knowing really.

Thanks again, -- Peter

Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
> 
> On 05/01/14 18:15, Peter Selinger wrote:
> > I agree. Two of my packages are in your list: easyrender and newsynth
> > (both have "Nothing" for a reason in your list).
> 
> If a package has Nothing for a reason, that means that no build log is
> available. From what I've read yesterday, it's a problem with their
> report system and I think it happens when cabal can't find
> dependency candidates for your package. I link to a comment on GitHub
> in my opening post which explains this.
> 
> > The problem for me is that, although you seem to have access to build
> > logs, I don't. I have not found the way to access the hackage build
> > logs for my packages or their documentation. Could you let me know
> > where I can find them?
> 
> I do not have any special access to Hackage, I didn't even log in. See
> my opening post for how to access the build log or see my reply to
> Sven for an example. I really think there should be a button on the
> site for this. If the build logs existed for newsynth, you could do
> the following: check general build status[1] then check the first
> report[2] then check the build log for the first report[3]. If the
> build status is empty, you won't have any reports.
> 
> Check out [4][5][6] for an example on a package which failed to build
> and has logs.
> 
> Effectively, the Nothing in my ‘report’ indicates no build status.
> 
> > For both packages, the documentation builds just fine on my local
> > machine. It also builds fine in a virtual machine, under Windows and
> > Ubuntu. Since I don't have access to Hackage's build logs, I cannot
> > really figure out why the documentation is not building there. This is
> > what has prevented me from fixing it.
> 
> I suspect Hackage fails to resolve your dependencies, at least that
> what seems to be causing no logs. See [7] for a comment and [8] for an
> existing GitHub issue (although one without any activity).
> 
> > I even created "candidates" for the packages, before uploading the
> > packages to the main index. Again, the documentation did not build,
> > and again, I could not find any logs to tell me what went wrong. So
> > the whole "candidate" mechanism has so far been useless to me.
> >
> > You mentioned that there is a way to upload the documentation
> > manually. I'd love to do that. But how? I don't see any buttons or
> > links on the package maintainer's pages that would allow me to do
> > that.
> 
> I post a link in my opening post to a comment about this. See [9].
> I just tried to do it for one of my packages (yi-monokai-0.1.1.1) and
> here are the steps I took:
> 
> 1. cd ~/programming/yi-monokai
> 2. cabal configure && cabal build && cabal haddock --hyperlink-source
> 3. cd dist/doc
> 4. mv yi-monokai yi-monokai-0.1.1.1-docs
> 5. tar -c -v -z -Hustar -f yi-monokai-0.1.1.1-docs.tar.gz
> yi-monokai-0.1.1.1-docs
> 6. curl -X PUT -H 'Content-Type: application/x-tar' -H
> 'Content-Encoding: gzip' --data-binary
> '@yi-monokai-0.1.1.1-docs.tar.gz'
> 'http://USERNAME:PASSWORD@hackage.haskell.org/package/yi-monokai-0.1.1.1/docs'
> 
> With these steps, my little package now has documentation. There's
> some info on format at [10]. I might write a small blog post outlining
> these steps later as it was not easy to figure out.
> 
> > Any help appreciated, -- Peter
> 
> [1]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/newsynth-0.1.0.0/reports/
> [2]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/newsynth-0.1.0.0/reports/1
> [3]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/newsynth-0.1.0.0/reports/1/log
> [4]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yi-monokai-0.1.1.1/reports/
> [5]: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yi-monokai-0.1.1.1/reports/1
> [6]:
> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/yi-monokai-0.1.1.1/reports/1/log
> [7]:
> https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/145#issuecomment-30129142
> [8]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/142
> [9]:
> https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/145#issuecomment-29468613
> [10]: https://github.com/haskell/hackage-server/issues/56
> --
> Mateusz K.
>