This is welcome news, especially with the "compile twice" policy now in effect for the "dyn" libraries. And so far it's working -- updated 22 Haskell packages from this just now! Very quick too.
Greg On 2011-Jan-11, Peter Simons wrote: > The following message is a courtesy copy of an article > that has been posted to gmane.comp.lang.haskell.cafe as well. > > Hi guys, > > those of you who use the ArchLinux distribution might be interested to know > that a team of volunteers has put together a binary package repository that > complements the set of Haskell packages that's already being distributed by > ArchLinux. Subscribers of that repository can use Pacman to install all of > Haskell Platform 2010.2.0.0 as well as a few other popular packages such as > bnfc, hledger, pandoc, sifflet, and yesod on both i686 and x86_64. If you > want to use the repository, then append the following two lines at the end > of your /etc/pacman.conf file: > > [haskell] > Server = http://andromeda.kiwilight.com/$repo/$arch > > Please be aware of the fact that this is the very first public announcement > of this repository, so you should consider it as being in a kind of beta > state. Basically, if your Linux machine is responsible for controlling some > large nuclear power plant or something, you probably shouldn't be using > this. Everyone else is encouraged to try it out. If you encounter problems, > have questions, or would like to make suggestions, then please raise an > issue at <https://github.com/archhaskell/habs/issues>. Of course, you're > also welcome to provide feedback by posting to the haskell-cafe mailing list > or to [email protected]. > > Many people have contributed to this effort in one way or another. Don > Stewart originally wrote the cabal2arch tool that is being used to generate > the HABS tree on which this repository is based. Rémy Oudompheng has > extended that tool and the underlying ArchLinux library significantly, and > he has also written most of the build system that's being used to compile > the binary packages. Magnus Therning has compiled all the x86_64 binaries. > The i686 binaries were compiled by Yours Truely. Kaiting Chen is kindly > hosting the repository on his server. Furthermore, there are many other > people who have submitted bug reports, suggestions, and fixes by way of AUR. > > Have fun, > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > arch-haskell mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell -- ___ ___ __ _ / _ \ / _ \| | | | Gregory D. Weber, Associate Professor / /_\// / | | | /\ | | Indiana University East / /_\\/ /__| | |/ \| | http://mypage.iu.edu/~gdweber/ \____/\_____/\___/\__/ Tel. (765) 973-8420; FAX (765) 973-8550 _______________________________________________ arch-haskell mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/arch-haskell
