[Haskell-cafe] Local mirrors of hackage

[Victor Miller]

Aha, I figured out the problem.  I needed to add the lines
remote-repo: myname:file://path-to-hackage
remote-repo-cache: cache-file

to my ~/.cabal/config

Now it works fine.  I wish that the instructions were a little less obscure.

Victor

On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:26 PM, Victor Miller <victorsmiller at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi John, I just got around to installing the downloaded hackage mirror,
> and I noticed that its structure is different than the one that I
> downloaded last June -- in the old one there are files
>
> 00-index.cache
> 00-index.tar
> and a bunch of subdirectories, one per package. Within each of those is a
> version subdirectory which contains a cabal file and a tar.gz file of the
> package files.
>
> In the new one there are files
> 00-checksums.bak
> 00-checksums.dat
> 00-index.tar.gz
>
> and a directory called package
>
> That directory contains directories called package-name-version
> and a corresponding file called package-name-version.tar.gz
>
> one for each package and version
>
> My version of cabal 1.22 doesn't understand that.  Do I need a new version
> of cabal, or do I have to process the files somehow?
>
> Victor
>
>
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 4:45 PM, John Wiegley <johnw at newartisans.com>
> wrote:
>
>> >>>>> Victor Miller <victorsmiller at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> I committed a fix very recently to the 'pipes' branch that you may need,
>> since
>> there is one package on Hackage that is missing and thus cannot be
>> downloaded.
>>
>> --
>> John Wiegley                  GPG fingerprint = 4710 CF98 AF9B 327B B80F
>> http://newartisans.com                          60E1 46C4 BD1A 7AC1 4BA2
>>
>
>
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