[Haskell-cafe] cabal update problem?

[Jonathon Delgado]

>From ~15Mb to ~60Mb.

The old format also has multiple revisions, it seems to be just the package.jsons (with their uncompressible hashes) that's bloating it.


From: Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
Sent: 17 August 2017 09:01
To: Jonathon Delgado
Cc: haskell-cafe at haskell.org
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] cabal update problem?
  

This is the expected new behavior in cabal 2.0, due to usage of Hackage Security. The new tarball is much larger since it keeps all revisions of a cabal file from all time (though I'm honestly surprised to hear it's 4 times the size). The additional  files have to do with new features in Hackage Security, like mirroring and incremental updates.