can u write a detailed installation guide about ur blog: http://www.skybluetrades.net/blog/ ?

[luckypoem]

hi.
i see ur blog : http://www.skybluetrades.net/blog/ ,i like its pagination feature very much.
i want to install ur blog on my VPS, i cloned ur blog repo:
git clone https://github.com/ian-ross/blog
cd blog

but after i get into blog dir,i don't know how to install it.so, can u write a detailed installation guide about ur blog: http://www.skybluetrades.net/blog/?

thank u very much

[shakthimaan]

@ian-ross
Can you please let me know which *nix distribution do you use to build your blog sources? On Ubuntu 15.04, using "cabal build" gives me dependency errors.

[luckypoem]

hi.

my linux vps is debian7.
ur blog repo actually doesn't have blog.cabal file,so i can't use "cabal sandbox init && cabal install" to install it.

[shakthimaan]

@luckypoem
My question was for Ian. The blog.cabal is present in the build/ folder.

[luckypoem]

hi。

root@AR:/usr/local/www.skybluetrades.net/build# ls
blog.cabal blog.hs dist LICENSE Setup.hs TikZ.hs
root@AR:/usr/local/www.skybluetrades.net/build# stack init
root@AR:/usr/local/www.skybluetrades.net/build# ls
blog.cabal blog.hs dist LICENSE Setup.hs stack.yaml TikZ.hs
root@AR:/usr/local/www.skybluetrades.net/build# stack build

it shows:
...
/usr/local/www.skybluetrades.net/build/blog.hs:564:23:
Couldn't match expected type ‘time-1.5.0.1:Data.Time.Format.Locale.TimeLocale’
with actual type ‘System.Locale.TimeLocale’
NB: ‘time-1.5.0.1:Data.Time.Format.Locale.TimeLocale’
is defined in ‘Data.Time.Format.Locale’ in package ‘time-1.5.0.1’
‘System.Locale.TimeLocale’
is defined in ‘System.Locale’ in package ‘old-locale-1.0.0.7’
In the first argument of ‘formatTime’, namely ‘defaultTimeLocale’
In the expression: formatTime defaultTimeLocale "%F %T" t
Completed 126 action(s).
-- While building package blog-0.1.0.0 using:
/root/.stack/setup-exe-cache/i386-linux/setup-Simple-Cabal-1.22.5.0-ghc-7.10.3 --builddir=.stack-work/dist/i386-linux/Cabal-1.22.5.0 build exe:blog --ghc-options " -ddump-hi -ddump-to-file"
Process exited with code: ExitFailure 1
root@AR:/usr/local/www.skybluetrades.net/build#

how to fix the error encountered after running "stack build"?

[ian-ross]

The code appears to be out of date with respect to Hackage. I've just been using it within a Cabal sandbox I set up a long time ago. I've not been blogging recently, so haven't been using this. If you want to fix it up to use with Stack and the latest Hakyll, be my guest.

[shakthimaan]

I had cloned your repo after May 20, 2012 (74dc20d) and started tweaking it to my needs. There was no .cabal added to the repo at that instant.

The blog.cabal was added on October 11, 2012 https://github.com/ian-ross/blog/commit/dc92eb67542de14afdd97cce91a3c9784bb78957

I should re-play all your changes to my repo, including the migration to Hakyll 4?

[luckypoem]

@ian-ross ,
hi.

i modified blog.hs:
delete "import System.Locale (defaultTimeLocale)"
change "import Data.Time.Format (formatTime)" to be
"import Data.Time.Format (formatTime, defaultTimeLocale)"

then i ran "ghc --make blog.hs",
root@AR:/usr/local/ian-ross-blog/build# ghc --make blog.hs
[1 of 2] Compiling TikZ ( TikZ.hs, TikZ.o )

TikZ.hs:148:23: error:
Variable not in scope: md5 :: C8.ByteString -> a0
root@AR:/usr/local/ian-ross-blog/build#

so,how to fix the TikZ error?

[ian-ross]

I've now set things up to use Stack. Assuming you have Stack installed, if you clone the repo and do stack build in the build directory, things should just work.

[luckypoem]

hi.

root@AR:/usr/local/ian-ross-blog/build# stack build
Downloaded nightly-2016-12-10 build plan.
Shallow package index repo detected, transitioning to a full clone... Updating package index Hackage (mirrored at https://github.com/commercialhaskell/all-cabal-hashes.git) ...Running /usr/bin/git fetch --unshallow in directory /root/.stack/indices/Hackage/git-update/all-cabal-hashes/ exited with ExitFailure 129

error: unknown option `unshallow'
usage: git fetch [] [ [...]]
or: git fetch []
or: git fetch --multiple [] [( | )...]
or: git fetch --all []

-v, --verbose         be more verbose
-q, --quiet           be more quiet
--all                 fetch from all remotes
-a, --append          append to .git/FETCH_HEAD instead of overwriting
--upload-pack <path>  path to upload pack on remote end
-f, --force           force overwrite of local branch
-m, --multiple        fetch from multiple remotes
-t, --tags            fetch all tags and associated objects
-n                    do not fetch all tags (--no-tags)
-p, --prune           prune remote-tracking branches no longer on remote
--recurse-submodules[=<on-demand>]
                      control recursive fetching of submodules
--dry-run             dry run
-k, --keep            keep downloaded pack
-u, --update-head-ok  allow updating of HEAD ref
--progress            force progress reporting
--depth <depth>       deepen history of shallow clone

root@AR:/usr/local/ian-ross-blog/build#

how to fix it?
thank you very much!

[ian-ross]

You have an old version of Git. The current version is 2.10.2. The unshallow option was introduced in version 1.8.2, which was released in March 2013, so your version must be older than that.

[shakthimaan]

I was able to run "stack build" on (Parabola GNU/Linux Libre). But, when I try to generate _site using ("./path/to/blog build"), it fails at:

  updated blog/tags/science.html
  updated blog/tags/sleep.html
  updated blog/tags/web-programming.html
  updated blog/tags/yesod.html
  updated blog/tags/yoga.html
  [ERROR] sass: createProcess: runInteractiveProcess: exec: does not exist (No such file or directory)

What am I missing? Using ghc 8.0.1-1.

$ git --version
git version 2.11.0

[luckypoem]

@shakthimaan ,u should install ruby firstly,then run "gem install sass" to install sass.

[shakthimaan]

I do not remember (or have) Ruby installed when using Hakyll 3.x.

https://github.com/shakthimaan/shakthimaan-blog/blob/b58077d3cf4eda2ca646fa3af5ca5f1fd66666eb/bin/blog.hs#L152

It worked after I installed Ruby, and did "gem install sass". Thanks!