Re: [Haskell-cafe] Local copy of hackageDB

This could be a nice feature and not hard to implement, maybe someone could take it up? 2011/4/7 José Pedro Magalhães

Yes, I have that tarball. I just don't know how to tell cabal-install to use it. Going to each package, individually unpacking and installing it is what I've been doing so far, but I was hoping that could be automated.

Cheers, Pedro

On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 14:18, Magnus Therning wrote:

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On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:21, Marc Weber wrote:

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Local copy ? You know that hackage is hosting several thausands of source archives - also old versions you don't want?

Do you want to mirror everything locally?

Fetching "latest" versions only to generate hashes takes many hours. (Experience from hack-nix).

There's a tar-ball served from http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/hackage.html (http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/archive.tar) which contains the latest version of all packages. I think that's what the OP is using. Downloading a 150MB tar-ball shouldn't take many hours, if you're on a decent connection.

/M

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