[Haskell-cafe] Local copy of hackageDB

Markus Läll markus.l2ll at gmail.com
Thu Apr 7 16:53:02 CEST 2011


This could be a nice feature and not hard to implement, maybe someone could
take it up?

2011/4/7 José Pedro Magalhães <jpm at cs.uu.nl>

> 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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