2011/4/7 José Pedro Magalhães
Hi all,
I want to use cabal-install on a machine without internet access. I tried downloading http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/archive.tar, unpacking it and setting the local-repo field in the config file to this location but that doesn't work, as cabal-install says that it is missing the package list for the local repo. What should I do?
Hello, In addition of the (unpacked) archive, you also need to provide a 00-index.tar.gz file. It is an archive with all the .cabal that are available in the repo. You can find info about its layout at the following page http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/wiki/HackageDB I don't know if such a index file is available for the archive.tar you have, but it should be straightforward to create it. HTH, Thu