Re: Haskell on armel

2015-11-19 Thread Elena ``of Valhalla''
On 2015-11-19 at 10:54:36 +, Neil Williams wrote: > Are there particular haskell packages which could be relevant to a > NAS-type installation or other minimal installation-size server setup? > Typical armel devices don't have endless Gb of storage for the rootfs. There is also pandoc, which i

Re: Running Debian from a USB-drive on a Cubox-i 4

2015-11-19 Thread Vagrant Cascadian
On 2015-11-19, Pierre wrote: > I've bootstrapped Jessie on my Cubox-i 4 following instructions from > http://techieventures.blogspot.ca/2014/10/install-debian-jessie-with-debian-u.html. I'd recommend trying the images for debian-installer instead, as those *should* set up booting correctly: ht

Running Debian from a USB-drive on a Cubox-i 4

2015-11-19 Thread Pierre
Hello, I've bootstrapped Jessie on my Cubox-i 4 following instructions from http://techieventures.blogspot.ca/2014/10/install-debian-jessie-with-debian-u.html. Now, I want to use a USB hard drive for the root filesystem instead of the MMC. I've changed the /boot/uEnv.txt file to point at /dev/sda1

Re: Haskell on armel

2015-11-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:20:21 +0100 Richard Hartmann wrote: > So armel is the port with the most installations within the arm > ecosystem. armel installs, at least via the vagaries of popcon, have been falling since 2012, down by ~50% in that time. http://popcon.debian.org/stat/sub-armel.png arm

Re: Haskell on armel

2015-11-19 Thread Richard Hartmann
So armel is the port with the most installations within the arm ecosystem. Can we get stats about how many packages are on a specific architecture. Richard Sent by mobile; excuse my brevity.

Re: Haskell on armel

2015-11-19 Thread Richard Hartmann
Is there a list of hardware that's armel? Popcon stats might help. Richard Sent by mobile; excuse my brevity.

Re: Haskell on armel

2015-11-19 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 6:54 PM, Neil Williams wrote: > Is there a use case for haskell on armel that anyone knows / cares > about? That would determine whether haskell could be removed without > worries about it being a one-way change. > > Are there particular haskell packages which could be rele

Re: Haskell on armel

2015-11-19 Thread Neil Williams
On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 11:31:28 +0100 Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > we need a decision about what to do with Haskell on armel. Is there a use case for haskell on armel that anyone knows / cares about? That would determine whether haskell could be removed without worries about it being a one-wa

Haskell on armel

2015-11-19 Thread Joachim Breitner
Hi, we need a decision about what to do with Haskell on armel. Recall that the Haskell compiler GHC has recently improved its support for (recent forms of) ARM, and a new release (7.10.3) with that is expected real soon. This has been sitting in experimental for far too long, and as soon as 7.10.