[Fedora-haskell-list] cblrepo tool

[Jens Petersen]

Hi Lakshmi, 

I hope you don't mind me replying on list since I think this is useful 
discussion for others too... 


One thing. We have, in some cases, modified the cabal files to remove hard dependencies like a==1.0. I am assuming that this package will consider cabal file as it is in the package. Good point: in fact it is a problem: by default cblrepo reads packages from hackage's index directly. 
Though cblrepo supports patches also, and can also read .cabal files 
but my script doesn't handle that yet. 

Could you explain a bit more on "making cbl-repo ghc-pkg aware"? Actually I had naively been thinking that metadata from ghc-pkg would be 
sufficient to bootstrap cblrepo.db but I guess it is not: also from above. 
I still think it would be nice if cblrepo could read the installed packages 
from ghc-pkg, but without using patches as you say it may not work 100%. 


I suspect with ghc-7.2 coming there may be more patches needed too, hmm. 


Jens 

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