Re: Hackage revisions and the current breakage of https://jenkins.debian.net/view/haskell/job/haskell-package-plan/
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.
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