[Haskell-cafe] Local copy of hackageDB

[Magnus Therning]

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:21, Marc Weber <marco-oweber at gmx.de> wrote:
> Local copy ?
> You know that hackage is hosting several thausands of source archives -
> also old versions you don't want?
>
> Do you want to mirror everything locally?
>
> Fetching "latest" versions only to generate hashes takes many hours.
> (Experience from hack-nix).

There's a tar-ball served from
http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/hackage.html
(http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/archive.tar) which
contains the latest version of all packages.  I think that's what the
OP is using.  Downloading a 150MB tar-ball shouldn't take many hours,
if you're on a decent connection.

/M

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