[Haskell-cafe] managing local cabal package database

[Tobias Florek]

> Cabal allows to specify a directory for local packages ('local-repo' in '.cabal
> /config') with specific structure. Are there any scripts that take a git repo,
> checkout its tags one by one and put them in some specified directory in the
> correct way?

have a look at the bug report for cabal to support it. there are some
pointers on how to do it manually. i don't have the script handy, but it
is pretty trivial.

cheers,
 tob(ias florek)