Re: [Fedora-haskell-list] Re: Planning for the Haskell Platform ... and documentation
Pardon my top-posting, I'm on an iPhone tonight. To update the index,
we simply build a big haddock command line, telling it where to find
all the existing haddocks. I'll experiment and send out precise details.
On Oct 13, 2008, at 18:48, Jens Petersen <petersen(a)redhat.com> wrote:
> Right now, there's one standard, frozen set of HTML Haddocks
in
> /usr/share/doc/ghc. We have the ability to generate a new index every
> time we install or remove a package, so that the index reflects
> whatever is installed. Thus installing gtk2hs would add a pile of
> entries to the toplevel index.
>
> This seems *really* appealing to me, and we could add it to the %post
> and %preun sections of a package's spec file by editing the top-level
> macros file that Jens recently added.
What does one have to do to update the index?
> One necessary change would be to install all haddock docs under
> /usr/share/doc/ghc, so that we could find all '*.haddock' files when
> reindexing, using the find command.
Sounds good to me. :-)
-Jens