[arch-haskell] cblrepo: minor corrections and questions

[Magnus Therning]

On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 06:23:14AM +0000, Xyne wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I was going to post the following to the cblrepo github page but I do not have
> an account and I encountered a problem while trying to create one.
> 
> Corrections:
> * srcdir and pkgdir variables should be properly quoted in PKGBUILD output

Issue #20:  https://github.com/magthe/cblrepo/issues/20

> * there is a typo in the help message for the convertdb command:
>   "convert and old" -> "convert an old"

Issue #21: https://github.com/magthe/cblrepo/issues/21

> Questions:
> * How can I use cblrepo to generate PKGBUILDs from local Cabal files (i.e.
>   packages that are not on Hackage)?

That's not possible at the moment, but there's a ticket related to it
(though I suspect I greatly underestimated the amount of work involved
when I wrote it):

  https://github.com/magthe/cblrepo/issues/7

I'd be very grateful for patches.

/M

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