On Tue, 1 Mar 2016 00:10:35 +0100 Francesco Ariis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 06:12:12PM -0430, Ernesto Hernández-Novich > wrote: > > > > Greetings, > > > > I want to use the backported GHC 7.10 on Debian 8, but would like to > > have *a lot* of the packages rebuilt (haskell-platform, yesod and > > a few more). Is there an easy way to build them that is not "one by > > one"? > > Any reason not to use the minmal intaller [1] and then, say, > cabal install something with lots of dependencies? (like yesod)? The only reason is to ease deployment of packages on other machines. I cannot upgrade production machines to Sid, and using cabal/stack is out of the question. I rather have my own private package repository with everything. If there's a semi-automatic way to have all packages built, it will save a lot of time. -- Ernesto Hernández-Novich - @iamemhn - Unix: Live free or die! Geek by nature, Linux by choice, Debian of course. If you can't aptitude it, it isn't useful or doesn't exist. GPG Key Fingerprint = 0064 ADF5 EB5C DE16 99C1 6C56 F2A3 86B5 A757 E5A1
