Re: Opam installation woes

[Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 Aug 2012, at 23:46, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:

> On 7 Aug 2012, at 23:34, Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
>> (fwiw i've just done this in my fork of opam-repo-dev, and sent a pull req.  
>> jon, by all means give this a go if you haven't fixed it yourself already...)
> 
> All merged to opam-repo-dev. Btw, I don't seem to get notification of pull 
> requests to Mirage organisation repos, so feel free to push directly to 
> mirage/opam-repo-dev if it fixes your problem.

ok, will do.

> I think it's high time we setup a little continuous build VM.  Thomas, is 
> there an easy way to iterate through every package and attempt a compilation? 
> I could do a big 'opam install `opam list`'-style command, but something that 
> has reasonable logging for failures would be useful.


what would you do about package interdependencies in the case of failure?

(sounds like a job for tsort ;)

-- 
Cheers,

R.




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