ivan.miljenovic: > Don Stewart <[email protected]> writes: > > > allbery: > >> Supposedly a future Cabal extension will be to, instead of installing, > >> write out a package for a vendor packaging system (yum, apt, yast, what > >> have you). Consider contributing to that effort. > >> > > > > However, we have tools for some distros that do this, and some distro > > tools support it directly (e.g. "bauerbill --hackage" on Arch Linux > > knows how to ask cabal2arch to translate the .cabal file). > > > > Contribut to yum to allow pulling from hackage, by calling cabal2yum? > > In general, I think this is a bad idea. > > I don't know how it is in Arch, but for Gentoo we need to do a lot of > QA'ing to make sure our ebuilds generated with hackport work properly
The ones on Arch "just work". I wonder what we're doing differently. cabal2arch knows a *lot* about Arch's package system. > (which is one reason why we don't churn ebuilds out as fast as you > generate PKBUILDs). Part of the problem is probably that hackport isn't > as polished as cabal2arch, but a few other concerns we need to take care > of are: > -- Don _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
