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Add "no command line variant" of src-repo-pkg
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philderbeast committed May 5, 2024
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remote version control system, rather than looking for that package in
Hackage.

Since version 3.4, cabal-install creates tarballs for each package coming from a
``source-repository-package`` stanza (effectively applying cabal sdists to such
packages). It gathers the names of the packages from the appropriate ``.cabal``
file in the version control repository, and allows their use just like Hackage
or locally defined packages.

There is no command line variant of this stanza.

.. code-block:: cabal
packages: .
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tag: e76fdc753e660dfa615af6c8b6a2ad9ddf6afe70
post-checkout-command: autoreconf -i
Since version 3.4, cabal-install creates tarballs for each package coming
from a ``source-repository-package`` stanza (effectively applying cabal
sdists to such packages). It gathers the names of the packages from the
appropriate .cabal file in the version control repository, and allows
their use just like Hackage or locally defined packages.

.. cfg-field:: type: VCS kind

.. cfg-field:: location: VCS location (usually URL)
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