Re: Opam installation woes

[Anil Madhavapeddy <anil@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 Aug 2012, at 23:49, Richard Mortier <Richard.Mortier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:

> 
> 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 ;)

there's a SAT solver in OPAM for dependencies. Not my problem ;-)

-a