[Haskell-beginners] Hackage down?

[Brent Yorgey]

On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:56:30PM +0100, Lorenzo Bolla wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:29:42AM -0400, Brent Yorgey wrote:
> > Looks like Hackage is back up now.  The official word is that
> > something (not sure what yet) was hitting the server really hard and
> > causing the load average to go through the roof, and it had to be
> > rebooted.
> > 
> > For future reference, an up-to-date mirror of the packages is
> > maintained at 
> > 
> >   http://hdiff.luite.com/packages/archive/
> > 
> > -Brent
> 
> Thanks, good to know.
> Is there a way to configure cabal to use the mirror, instead?

I believe you can do this by setting the 'remote-repo' property in
your ~/.cabal/config file.  There doesn't seem to be a command-line
option to set it.

-Brent