[Haskell-cafe] Do I need an account to report build of Hacakge packages?

[Ahn, Ki Yung]

I am just curious about how cabal report works.

I recently figured out that there is a report command in cabal and it
reports the reports generated by --build-reports option when building a
package.

Is this because I don't have an account on Hackage yet, or because of
some other reasons?

And if I make an account, where how I put that information in cabal
config file?

I've looked into the cabal config file and tried to change this myself
before, but it wasn't very self explanatory to me.  For instance, I
tried to make the build-reports on by default, deleting haskell comment
like double dashes "--" and put True flag after the colon, but keep
getting parse error from cabal.  I looked up the manual but it says that
the config file is self explanatory, which isn't to me at all.  Are
there any documentations on this available anywhere?


=== error messages when I tried to report the build log ===

kyagrd at kyagrd:~$ cabal report
Sending:
POST http://hackage.haskell.org/buildreports HTTP/1.1
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Length: 281
Accept: text/plain


Creating new connection to hackage.haskell.org
Received:
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:52:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (Debian)
Alternates: {"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type text/html} {charset
iso-8859-2} {language cs} {length 745}}, {"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1
{type text/html} {charset iso-8859-1} {language de} {length 766}},
{"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type text/html} {charset iso-8859-1}
{language en} {length 611}}, {"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type
text/html} {charset iso-8859-1} {language es} {length 759}},
{"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type text/html} {charset iso-8859-1}
{language fr} {length 771}}, {"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type
text/html} {charset iso-8859-1} {language ga} {length 813}},
{"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type text/html} {charset iso-8859-1}
{language it} {length 692}}, {"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type
text/html} {charset iso-2022-jp} {language ja} {length 749}},
{"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type text/html} {charset euc-kr} {language
ko} {length 703}}, {"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type text/html}
{charset iso-8859-1} {language nl} {length 688}},
{"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type text/html} {charset iso-8859-2}
{language pl} {length 707}}, {"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type
text/html} {charset iso-8859-1} {language pt-br} {length 753}},
{"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type text/html} {charset iso-8859-1}
{language ro} {length 689}}, {"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type
text/html} {charset iso-8859-5} {language sr} {length 716}},
{"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type text/html} {charset iso-8859-1}
{language sv} {length 722}}, {"HTTP_NOT_FOUND.html.var" 1 {type
text/html} {charset iso-8859-9} {language tr} {length 755}}
Vary: accept-language,accept-charset
Content-Length: 418
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1


cabal: Unrecognised response from server.
kyagrd at kyagrd:~$ cabal --version
cabal-install version 0.6.0
using version 1.6.0.1 of the Cabal library