[Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: yackage 0.0.0

[Erik Hesselink]

There is also the hackage 2.0 code [1]. This can be easily
cabal-installed, and added as an extra remote-repo to your
.cabal/config file. We've set this up at typLAB [2], and it's working
great. Cabal upload doesn't support multiple remote repo's, but we've
created a small deployment utility to quickly deploy to our own
hackage. By careful version number management, you can also create
local forks of hackage packages.

Erik

[1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB
[2] http://www.typlab.com

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 17:53, David Leimbach <leimy2k at gmail.com> wrote:
> This is very interesting.  I was thinking if this could work like an
> overlayed "namespace" on top of Hackage, rather than a complete override,
> that it would be a very interesting way to "fork" Hackage so it does what
> you want, transparently, and as a proxy.  Is that actually how it works
> though?  (It might be that I've not had my coffee yet, but I'm a little
> fuzzy on that point).
> While the Haskell-platform is a great stabilizing technology for the Haskell
> community and gives a nice warm fuzzy feeling to those who want to try it in
> commercial settings, it's not always true that it provides enough
> functionality for everyone's needs, and being able to somewhat modify what's
> available on Hackage could be very valuable.
> Dave
>
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 8:41 AM, Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I was speaking with my coworker Yitz[1] about a project he's working
>> on. Basically, he's going to end up with about 16 cabal packages that
>> are not going to be deployed to Hackage, and wanted us to set up a
>> Hackage server for our company to deploy these kinds of things.
>> However, getting all the pieces of Hackage aligned properly for such a
>> simple use case seemed a bit overkill.
>>
>> I then realized that I had the exact same problem during Yesod
>> development: before I make a major release, I usually end up with
>> about 10-15 packages that are not yet live on Hackage. It gets to be a
>> real pain when suddenly wai-extra is depending on network 2.3 and
>> authenticate requires network 2.2, and suddenly I need to manually
>> recompile 10 packages.
>>
>> So I decided to write up a simple web service to act as a local
>> Hackage server. It has no security (anyone with access can upload a
>> package), doesn't build haddocks, doesn't show package descriptions,
>> etc. All it does is:
>>
>> Show a list of uploaded packages/versions
>> Links to the tarballs
>> Allows you to upload new versions, which will automatically overwrite
>> existing packages
>> Provides the 00-index.tar.gz file needed by cabal-install, as well as
>> the tarballs for all the packages
>>
>> In order to use this, just do the following:
>>
>> cabal install yackage
>> run "yackage"
>> Upload your packages
>> Add remote-repo: yackage:http://localhost:3500/ to your ~/.cabal/config
>> file
>> cabal update
>> Install your packages are usual
>>
>> You'll need to leave yackage running whenever you want to run an
>> update or download new packages. A few other usage notes:
>>
>> If you overwrite a package, your cache folder will still have the old
>> version. You might want to just wipe our your cache folder on each
>> usage.
>> Running cabal update will download the update for both yackage and the
>> main hackage server; the latter can be a long process depending on
>> your internet connection.
>>
>> Here's a little shell script that will disable the Hackage repo, wipe
>> our the Yackage cache, update and re-enable the Hackage repo:
>>
>> #!/bin/sh
>>
>> CABAL_DIR=~/.cabal
>>
>> cp $CABAL_DIR/config $CABAL_DIR/config.sav
>> sed 's/^remote-repo: hackage/--remote-repo: hackage/' <
>> $CABAL_DIR/config.sav > $CABAL_DIR/config
>> rm -rf $CABAL_DIR/packages/yackage
>> cabal update
>> cp $CABAL_DIR/config.sav $CABAL_DIR/config
>>
>> I hope others find this tool useful.
>>
>> Michael
>>
>> [1] http://www.haskellers.com/user/Yitz_Gale/
>>
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