14 Jul
2012
14 Jul
'12
8:23 p.m.
On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 10:56:30PM +0100, Lorenzo Bolla wrote:
On Thu, Jul 12, 2012 at 11:29:42AM -0400, Brent Yorgey wrote:
Looks like Hackage is back up now. The official word is that something (not sure what yet) was hitting the server really hard and causing the load average to go through the roof, and it had to be rebooted.
For future reference, an up-to-date mirror of the packages is maintained at
http://hdiff.luite.com/packages/archive/
-Brent
Thanks, good to know. Is there a way to configure cabal to use the mirror, instead?
I believe you can do this by setting the 'remote-repo' property in your ~/.cabal/config file. There doesn't seem to be a command-line option to set it. -Brent