[Haskell-cafe] Local mirrors of hackage

[Victor Miller]

John, Thanks very much for hackage-mirror.  I'm running it now and it
appears to be working as advertised.  Thanks to everyone else who responded.

Victor

On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:16 PM, John Wiegley <johnw at newartisans.com> wrote:

> >>>>> Victor Miller <victorsmiller at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I have a computer that I work on which isn't directly connected to the
> > internet, that I want to use Haskell on. In order to do that I want a
> local
> > version of hackage. I was previously able to do this using
> > mirror_hackage.py, but since hackage 2 came around this no longer works.
> > Doing this would involve running something on a computer that *is*
> attached
> > to the internet, and then transferring a bunch of files over to the other
> > computer. Can someone point me to a recipe for doing this?
>
> I wrote https://github.com/jwiegley/hackage-mirror to do just this, with
> relatively high performance for incremental updates.
>
> Also, if you're ever a Nix user, you can modify the core Haskell builder to
> reference whatever directory you mirror to first, before reaching out to
> the
> Internet for tarballs. I've been using this effectively for several years
> now.
>
> --
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