[Haskell-cafe] external git dependency source in .cabal

[Brandon Allbery]

It doesn't. The source repo is for hackage documentation, not package
retrieval.

On Sun, Nov 18, 2018 at 9:57 AM Ivan Perez <ivanperezdominguez at gmail.com>
wrote:

> If you can do this, this is news to me.
>
> See: https://www.haskell.org/cabal/users-guide/developing-packages.html
>
> From what I understand, you cannot use this to point to repos for
> dependencies, only to indicate the repo for the package you are defining.
>
> You'd have to publish pack1 somewhere (on hackage or in your own hackage
> server), or use a different tool to declare the dependency. I don't know if
> cabal's new-build system addresses this at all.
>
> Ivan
>
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2018 at 06:54, Fabien R <theedge456 at free.fr> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> I'm trying to reference an external source of a package within a sandbox,
>> using cabal 2.0.0.1:
>>
>> source-repository head
>>    type: git
>>    location: <git URL of pack1>
>>
>> executable myExe
>>     build-depends: base==4.10.1.0, pack1 -any
>>
>> But "cabal -v install --only-dependencies" fails:
>>
>> cabal: Encountered missing dependencies:
>> pack1 -any
>>
>> Any hint ?
>>
>> --
>> Fabien
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