On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 05:36:52PM +0200, Mikolaj Konarski wrote: > 15:33 < dcoutts> mikolaj: yes, all revisions are in the "01" tarball > 15:33 < dcoutts> but if you unpack with standard 'tar' tools they only > unpack out the last one > 15:34 < dcoutts> if you use the Haskell 'tar' lib you can select the > first if you like > 15:35 < dcoutts> or e.g. if you want all updates up to a certain date, > but none after, then take the prefix of the tarfile up to one record > 15:36 < dcoutts> that's what the cabal update --index-state=STATE does
Interesting. So test-packages.pl could be rewritten to always grab the earliest-dated instance of each cabal file needs patching.
