I spent a few hours over the past couple of days hacking on Cabal to add
the ability to build RPM packages. You can fetch my darcs repository
from here:
darcs get --partial http://darcs.serpentine.com/cabal-rpm
This new capability is easy to use. It adds a single new Cabal command,
called
Great stuff Bryan, I look forward to seeing the patches. Do darcs send
them to this list for review.
Duncan
On Tue, 2007-02-20 at 15:39 -0800, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
I spent a few hours over the past couple of days hacking on Cabal to add
the ability to build RPM packages. You can fetch my
Duncan Coutts wrote:
Great stuff Bryan, I look forward to seeing the patches. Do darcs send
them to this list for review.
I'd be happy to, but my darcs repo contains about 50 patches that
resulted from many incremental checkpoints as I went. I'm guessing that
you'd prefer to see something
I'd like to file a bug against Cabal, but I cannot for the life of me
figure out how to create an account at
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/
If there is a create an account knob somewhere, I cannot see it.
For the record, the bug is that the sdist command doesn't archive files
Bryan O'Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to file a bug against Cabal, but I cannot for the life of me
figure out how to create an account at
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/
Login: guest
password: haskell'
(note the apostrophe at the end)
I had to disable create an account
Have you seen cabal2rpm? It's an external tool with a similar goal:
http://community.moertel.com/ss/space/Cabal2rpm/cabal2rpm.html
I hadn't seen it, no.
Can you outline any other differences between this command and
cabal2rpm?
Cabal2rpm is much less sophisticated. The rpm command I wrote
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 05:08:13PM -0800, Isaac Jones wrote:
Bryan O'Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'd like to file a bug against Cabal, but I cannot for the life of me
figure out how to create an account at
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/
Login: guest
password: haskell'