Building the Platform

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Sonntag, den 05.05.2013, 19:14 +0200 schrieb Peter Simons:
>  > * Bare: Just the package sources and a .cabal file, than you.
> 
> this is how do things for NixOS. We have build instructions for every
> package that's part of the platform already. A platform release simply
> ties the appropriate versions of those builds together into one "meta
> package". To accomplish that, we use nothing except the HP Cabal file.

very similar for the Debian Package, which does not even use the Cabal
file: The package maintainer manually updates the dependencies of the
meta-package to what the platform specifies, and makes adjustment for
Debian-specifics.

Greetings,
Joachim

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