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authorThomas Miedema <thomasmiedema@gmail.com>2015-07-14 17:15:12 +0200
committerThomas Miedema <thomasmiedema@gmail.com>2015-07-15 13:30:49 +0200
commita592e9ffcfb288cd154bad60dc8003b781355533 (patch)
tree7a44e7fe697c8b353b1157aad695bafa594d72dc /packages
parent348f5ca4c2bd4b99a1d74cbb932729687c53338e (diff)
downloadhaskell-a592e9ffcfb288cd154bad60dc8003b781355533.tar.gz
Remove all references to sync-all
Diffstat (limited to 'packages')
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/packages b/packages
index 33137d6c27..c621a6773c 100644
--- a/packages
+++ b/packages
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
# Despite the name "package", this file contains the master list of
# the *repositories* that make up GHC. It is parsed by
# * boot
-# * sync-all
# * rules/foreachLibrary.mk
#
# Some of this information is duplicated elsewhere in the build system:
@@ -30,17 +29,8 @@
# GitHub and GHC developers are granted push-rights for are denoted by
# being specified with the `ssh://` scheme. Thus, `https://`
# repo urls denote read-only access.
-#
-# * The 'tag' determines when "sync-all get" will get the
-# repo. If the tag is "-" then it will always get it, but if there
-# is a tag then a corresponding flag must be given to "sync-all", e.g.
-# if you want to get the packages with an "extralibs"
-# tag then you need to use "sync-all --extra get".
-# Support for new tags must be manually added to the "sync-all" script.
-#
-# 'tag' is also used to determine which packages the build system
-# deems to have the EXTRA_PACKAGE property: tags 'dph' and 'extra'
-# both give this property
+# * 'tag', in combination with the variables BUILD_DPH and BUILD_EXTRA_PKGS,
+# determines which packages are build by default.
#
# Lines that start with a '#' are comments.
#