#390: add cabal unpack command ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: duncan | Owner: Type: enhancement | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: normal | Ghcversion: 6.8.3 Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ It'd be handy to be able to `cabal unpack` a package name. It would be useful for users to inspect or modify packages. {{{ $ cabal unpack blah }}} It would just unpack the cached tarball for that package into the current directory (which of course always creates a sub-directory). It should accept either a versioned or unversioned package name. If the package has not been fetched yet then cabal should probably fetch it. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/390 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects