[Haskell-cafe] Local copy of hackageDB

[José Pedro Magalhães]

Yes, I have that tarball. I just don't know how to tell cabal-install to use
it. Going to each package, individually unpacking and installing it is what
I've been doing so far, but I was hoping that could be automated.


Cheers,
Pedro

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 14:18, Magnus Therning <magnus at therning.org> wrote:

> 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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