[GHC DevOps Group] Any ways to test a GHC build against large set of packages (including test suites)?

[Mark Karpov]

Hi Ömer,

I'll spend some time next week adding a new feature that will allow to use
not-yet-published versions of packages with Stackage HEAD.

Best,

Mark

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 6:56 PM Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I also briefly looked at hackage.head. As far as I understand it doesn't
> out-of-the-box provide a way to build a large set of packages, right? It'd
> be
> useful if I had a package that I want to test against GHC HEAD but
> currently it
> doesn't help me, unless I'm missing something.
>
> Ömer
>
> Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>, 10 Ağu 2018 Cum, 11:39
> tarihinde şunu yazdı:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is working great, I just generated my first report. One problem is
> stm-2.4
> > doesn't compile with GHC HEAD, we need stm-2.5.0.0. But that's not
> published on
> > Hackage yet, and latest nightly still uses stm-2.4.5.0. I wonder if
> there's
> > anything that can be done about this. Apparently stm blocks 82 packages
> (I
> > don't know if that's counting transitively or just packages that are
> directly
> > blocked by stm). Any ideas about this?
> >
> > Ömer
> >
> > Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>, 9 Ağu 2018 Per, 14:45
> > tarihinde şunu yazdı:
> > >
> > > Ah, I now realize that that command is supposed to print that output.
> I'll
> > > continue following the steps and keep you updated if I get stuck again.
> > >
> > > Ömer
> > >
> > > Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>, 9 Ağu 2018 Per, 13:20
> > > tarihinde şunu yazdı:
> > > >
> > > > Hi Manuel,
> > > >
> > > > I'm trying stackage-head. I'm following the steps for the scheduled
> build in
> > > > .circleci/config.yml. So far steps I took:
> > > >
> > > > - Installed ghc-head (from [1]) to ~/ghc-head
> > > > - Installed stackage-build-plan, stackage-curator and stackage-head
> (with
> > > >   -fdev) from git repos, using stack.
> > > > - export BUILD_PLAN=nightly-2018-07-30 (from config.yml)
> > > > - curl
> https://ghc-artifacts.s3.amazonaws.com/nightly/validate-x86_64-linux/latest/metadata.json
> > > > --output metadata.json
> > > > - curl
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fpco/stackage-nightly/master/$BUILD_PLAN.yaml
> > > > --output $BUILD_PLAN.yaml
> > > >
> > > > Now I'm doing
> > > >
> > > > - ./.local/bin/stackage-head already-seen --target $BUILD_PLAN
> > > > --ghc-metadata metadata.json --outdir build-reports
> > > >
> > > > but it's failing with
> > > >
> > > >     The combination of target and commit is new to me
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > >
> > > > [1]:
> https://ghc-artifacts.s3.amazonaws.com/nightly/validate-x86_64-linux/latest/bindist.tar.xz
> > > >
> > > > Ömer
> > > >
> > > > Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com>, 7 Ağu 2018 Sal, 23:28
> > > > tarihinde şunu yazdı:
> > > > >
> > > > > Thanks for both suggestions. I'll try both and see which one works
> better.
> > > > >
> > > > > Ömer
> > > > >
> > > > > Manuel M T Chakravarty <chak at justtesting.org>, 7 Ağu 2018 Sal,
> 18:15
> > > > > tarihinde şunu yazdı:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hi Ömer,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > This is exactly the motivation for the Stackage HEAD works that
> we have pushed at Tweag I/O in the context of the GHC DevOps group. Have a
> look at
> > > > > >
> > > > > >   https://github.com/tweag/stackage-head
> > > > > >
> > > > > > and also the blog post from when the first version went live:
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> https://www.tweag.io/posts/2018-04-17-stackage-head-is-live.html
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > Manuel
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Am 06.08.2018 um 09:40 schrieb Ömer Sinan Ağacan <
> omeragacan at gmail.com>:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hi,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I'd like to test some GHC builds + some compile and runtime
> flag combinations
> > > > > > > against a large set of packages by building them and running
> test suites. For
> > > > > > > this I need
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > - A set of packages that are known to work with latest GHC
> > > > > > > - A way to build them and run their test suites (if I could
> specify compile and
> > > > > > >  runtime flags that'd be even better)
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I think stackage can serve as (1) but I don't know how to do
> (2). Can anyone
> > > > > > > point me to the right direction? I vaguely remember some
> nix-based solution for
> > > > > > > this that was being discussed on the IRC channel, but can't
> recall any details.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Ömer
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