Hi,
I don't think I am ready to go through the package process [1] with this
just yet, but I have questions to ask, so I am writing here :-)
I have been using https://dhall-lang.org/ for some of my
openshift/kubernetes configuration, like it much more than writing out
YAML, and I would like to have it available in Fedora.
I am mostly interested in the cli-utilities that compile dhall files to
various data formats (i.e. bash, yaml, json, text, e.t.c) and provide
development support (linting, language-server, e.t.c.), currently I am
using the statically compiled binaries from their github releases.
I know that there have been some attempts from dhall developer to use nix
to build RPMs, but after they started distributing statically compiled
binaries, they didn't pursue this further.
I can build binaries on my box using stack, but I am not yet sure how to
use fedora-provided utilities (i.e. is it just i.e. 'cabal-rpm builddep &&
cabal-rpm spec dhall && cabal-rpm local dhall' ?).
Here are my questions:
Did anybody try to package Dhall already?
Can I take a stab at it? :-)
Do I correctly assume I should first be able to build the binaries with
fedora-provided infrastructure (and not rely on i.e. nix)?
Should I assume i.e Fedora 31 is tracking Stackage LTS 13 and i.e Fedora 32
would be tracking Stackage LTS 14, when i.e. trying to resolve library
dependencies?
When running dealing with cabal-rpm, what should I do about packages
reported by `cabal-rpm missingdeps`?
Would some of you have time to help me troubleshoot, or answer more of my
questions? :)
Thanks for any response!
Adam
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Haskell_SIG?rd=SIGs/Haskell#New_Package_Proc…
and https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Haskell/ ?
