Added RPM generation capability to Cabal

2007-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
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

Re: Added RPM generation capability to Cabal

2007-02-20 Thread Duncan Coutts
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

Re: Added RPM generation capability to Cabal

2007-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
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

Trac has me baffled

2007-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
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

Re: Trac has me baffled

2007-02-20 Thread Isaac Jones
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

Re: Added RPM generation capability to Cabal

2007-02-20 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
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

Re: Trac has me baffled

2007-02-20 Thread Ross Paterson
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'