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Any solution to pinned packages + config.ml? Is there some basic reading I should do?

I'm afraid we don't really have solutions for this yet. The closer you could get would be to create your own opam-repo and put in there the dev packages that you need. See what we do for mirage for instance: https://github.com/mirage/mirage-dev

Or maybe put your pin commands in the `Makefile.user`? That's an interesting request actually, as it points out that the library/package/opam stuff is not totally sorted out yet (cf discussions early) We could have a more declarative APIs for this kind of dependencies. Something like:

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 1:00 PM, Sean Grove <sean@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Great, thanks for that. I actually need to pin a bunch of packages (e.g. https://github.com/mirage/mirage-bootvar-xen/issues/15) to get the unkernel booting appropriately, but I donât see how to specify that in config.ml - Iâm just listing package names, and so I suspect that someone else trying out the project will run into issues with the wrong version of the package - what's the solution here?

On Sun, Feb 21, 2016 at 8:38 AM, Richard Mortier <richard.mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 21 February 2016 at 15:53, Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> foreign
>> ~packages:[
>> "irmin", ["irmin.mem"];
>> "tls", ["tls.mirage"];
>> ]
>> "Unikernel.Main" ...
>>
>> Then it's obvious which OPAM package provides each library and it's
>> harder for them to get out of sync.
>
> That's a good idea. Could even be an optional argument as most of the time the opam package and findlib library have the same names.
>

Hm. Several libraries have multiple parts though.

Also are we going to make it clear that we're mandating only libraries
expressed as OPAM packages can be used with Mirage?

(I like the idea of making the link between the package and the
library clearer in the common case though.)

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Richard Mortier
richard.mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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Re: [MirageOS-devel] Dependencies for project built on Mirage