#759: please clarify/document --remote-repo ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ Reporter: claus | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: cabal-install tool | Version: 1.8.0.6 Severity: normal | Keywords: Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: Platform: | ---------------------------------+------------------------------------------ I often find myself writing example code that I'd like to distribute via cabal, but without further burdening hackage with not generally useful packages. The source code has an undocumented(?) option `--remote-repo` that seems to serve that purpose, but there is little documentation, sometimes conflicting info, about how to put this to use. Mailing list threads: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-November/085860.html http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-November/085900.html Repo layout descriptions (differs between hackage 1.0 and 2.0, which is hardcoded in `cabal-install`): http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB/2.0/URIs Related tickets: #758, comment:6:ticket:428 -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/759 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects