[darcs-devel] Update for installing darcs OpenBSD binaries.

Ben Franksen ben.franksen at online.de
Thu May 24 09:15:38 UTC 2018


Am 23.05.2018 um 22:49 schrieb Matthias Kilian:
> On Wed, May 23, 2018 at 06:54:21PM +0200, Christoph R. Murauer wrote:
>> I saw, that at http://darcs.net/Binaries in the section OpenBSD is a
>> link to ports / openports.se which is not needed.
>>
>> Long story short, in OpenBSD ports are packages and vice versa.
>>
>> To install darcs on OpenBSD the command
>>
>> pkg_add darcs
>>
>> is enough (no ports are needed).
> 
> Right. Anyone using OpenBSD should please prefer official OpenBSD
> packages *unless* he/she is working on the ports tree or testing
> port updates sent to the OpenBSD ports mailing list.

Should I remove the OpenBSD section at http://darcs.net/Binaries with
the link to the ports from the wiki, so as not to give people any wrong
ideas?

>> This installs darcs 2.12.5 on -stable
>> and / or -current. Sure, you can build it from ports but, there are no
>> benefits and, in ports you dont find the latest version which you can
>> build using cabal.
> 
> As the still de-facto maintainer of all the haskell ports/packages
> for OpenBSD, I really hope to find some spare time to update darcs
> (and to update ghc). This will hopefully happen before the OpenBSD-6.4
> release, so people running OpenBSD stable would get darcs-2.14 in
> autumn 2018.

That would be very nice.

Cheers
Ben



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