[Nix-dev] Stackage Support Will Be Discontinued

Benno Fünfstück benno.fuenfstueck at gmail.com
Sat Jun 11 18:31:03 CEST 2016


Teo Klestrup Röijezon <teo at nullable.se> schrieb am Mi., 8. Juni 2016 um
21:58 Uhr:

> So there will no longer be a way to pin Haskell dependencies? That's a bit
> annoying. I can understand the desire to keep security-critical packages
> like OpenSSL and user-facing tools like git-annex up to date, but at the
> same time there are many non-critical dependencies that I wouldn't want to
> go back and patch my one-off deployments for updates of.
>
> The old way is/was certainly not perfect, but at least it provided a
> mostly-stable target that I could pretty much forget about after deployment.
>

There should be still a way to do this. I don't think stackage supports
needs to be removed from `hackage2nix` or `cabal2nix`, so you can still
simply generate your own `hackage-packages.nix` and include that with your
project to pin the hackage snapshot.
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