Comments on: Building Debian packages of (cabalised) Haskell packages http://therning.org/magnus/archives/458 Incoherent mumblings Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:00:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: therning.org/ magnus » Blog Archive » My thoughts on debianisation of haskell packages http://therning.org/magnus/archives/458/comment-page-1#comment-175067 therning.org/ magnus » Blog Archive » My thoughts on debianisation of haskell packages Sun, 05 Apr 2009 23:03:41 +0000 http://therning.org/magnus/?p=458#comment-175067 <p>[...] have written a few posts on debianising haskell packages in the past. Back then I stopped looking at it because of the age of the [...]</p> [...] have written a few posts on debianising haskell packages in the past. Back then I stopped looking at it because of the age of the [...]

]]> By: Valery V. Vorotyntsev http://therning.org/magnus/archives/458/comment-page-1#comment-171710 Valery V. Vorotyntsev Sun, 01 Mar 2009 21:35:08 +0000 http://therning.org/magnus/?p=458#comment-171710 <p>#0: Thanks for the howto!</p> <p>#6: The line could be [25 chars] shorter: echo '[conf]' | cat - pkg.conf > /tmp/1; mv /tmp/1 pkg.conf</p> <p>#14: Consider updating this step according to your own <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-haskell/2009/02/msg00079.html" rel="nofollow">message</a> to debian-haskell.</p> #0: Thanks for the howto!

#6: The line could be [25 chars] shorter: echo ‘[conf]‘ | cat – pkg.conf > /tmp/1; mv /tmp/1 pkg.conf

#14: Consider updating this step according to your own message to debian-haskell.

]]> By: roy_hu http://therning.org/magnus/archives/458/comment-page-1#comment-168860 roy_hu Tue, 20 Jan 2009 06:01:36 +0000 http://therning.org/magnus/?p=458#comment-168860 <p>There's also the cabal-debian project (http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-August/046272.html). But last time I tried, the process wasn't so successful. Don't know what status it's in now.</p> There’s also the cabal-debian project (http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2008-August/046272.html). But last time I tried, the process wasn’t so successful. Don’t know what status it’s in now.

]]> By: Jeremy Shaw http://therning.org/magnus/archives/458/comment-page-1#comment-168848 Jeremy Shaw Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:23:24 +0000 http://therning.org/magnus/?p=458#comment-168848 <p>You may be interested in cabal-debian and the autobuilder:</p> <p>http://src.seereason.com/cabal-debian/ http://src.seereason.com/autobuilder/</p> <p>Those are the tools used to maintain the repos here:</p> <p>http://deb.seereason.com/</p> <p>cabal-debian is a simple tool for debianizing cabal packages. Go into the top-level directory of a cabalized package and run 'cabal-debian --debianize'.</p> <p>The autobuilder is a bit more complex. It is a complete system for automatically building debian packages. It can get the package source via http, darcs, hg, svn, tla, and more. It automatically tracks build dependency and source changes to rebuild packages as needed, and installing the packages in an apt-gettable debian repository. There is an example config directory Example, which is the actual config file we use to build our repository.</p> <p>The 'missing' pieces are:</p> <ol> <li>cabal-debian does not automatically fetch packages from hackage</li> <li>the process of updating the debianization when a new upstream release is made is not fully automated</li> <li>adding new packages to the autobuilder config is currently done by hand</li> </ol> <p>These features would be nice to have, but the pain of doing them by hand has yet to overshadow the time required to develop those features.</p> <p>These tools are all written in Haskell. If you find them useful, we would love any patches you come up with. We really ought to upload this stuff to hackage, but haven't for some reason (probably lack of time). I think there is no good reason not too if someone was inclined.</p> <p>The autobuilder is horribly undocumented, so if you are interested in using it, you will probably need a bit of hand holding to get you started. It's pretty straight-forward once you know the magic though. I am stepcut on IRC.</p> You may be interested in cabal-debian and the autobuilder:

http://src.seereason.com/cabal-debian/ http://src.seereason.com/autobuilder/

Those are the tools used to maintain the repos here:

http://deb.seereason.com/

cabal-debian is a simple tool for debianizing cabal packages. Go into the top-level directory of a cabalized package and run ‘cabal-debian –debianize’.

The autobuilder is a bit more complex. It is a complete system for automatically building debian packages. It can get the package source via http, darcs, hg, svn, tla, and more. It automatically tracks build dependency and source changes to rebuild packages as needed, and installing the packages in an apt-gettable debian repository. There is an example config directory Example, which is the actual config file we use to build our repository.

The ‘missing’ pieces are:

  1. cabal-debian does not automatically fetch packages from hackage
  2. the process of updating the debianization when a new upstream release is made is not fully automated
  3. adding new packages to the autobuilder config is currently done by hand

These features would be nice to have, but the pain of doing them by hand has yet to overshadow the time required to develop those features.

These tools are all written in Haskell. If you find them useful, we would love any patches you come up with. We really ought to upload this stuff to hackage, but haven’t for some reason (probably lack of time). I think there is no good reason not too if someone was inclined.

The autobuilder is horribly undocumented, so if you are interested in using it, you will probably need a bit of hand holding to get you started. It’s pretty straight-forward once you know the magic though. I am stepcut on IRC.

]]> By: Clifford Beshers http://therning.org/magnus/archives/458/comment-page-1#comment-168846 Clifford Beshers Tue, 20 Jan 2009 03:12:29 +0000 http://therning.org/magnus/?p=458#comment-168846 <p>Magnus, we have a tool called cabal-debian that does a lot of this automatically. It is incomplete and imperfect, but it's written in Haskell ;-). See http://src.seereason.com/cabal-debian/. There is also a much larger tool called the autobuilder that actually builds full repositories: http://src.seereason.com/autobuilder.</p> <p>Clifford Beshers SeeReason Partners, LLC</p> Magnus, we have a tool called cabal-debian that does a lot of this automatically. It is incomplete and imperfect, but it’s written in Haskell ;-) . See http://src.seereason.com/cabal-debian/. There is also a much larger tool called the autobuilder that actually builds full repositories: http://src.seereason.com/autobuilder.

Clifford Beshers SeeReason Partners, LLC

]]> By: Mikhail Glushenkov http://therning.org/magnus/archives/458/comment-page-1#comment-168841 Mikhail Glushenkov Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:34:01 +0000 http://therning.org/magnus/?p=458#comment-168841 <p>Looks like we really need a cabal2deb tool.</p> Looks like we really need a cabal2deb tool.

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