José Pedro Magalhães wrote:

Thanks, but I don't really need a functional server or anything; I just want to have a local copy of Hackage on disk (latest versions only will do) and tell cabal-install to use that instead of the web.

If you have the package tarball, you can unpack it manually and then type "cabal install" (with no package name) inside that directory.

Regarding yackage, I don't think I can open ports on that machine either...

You don't need to open the port. With the -l flag yackage only uses the port on localhost. There are sometimes problems with that in the latest version, but that will be fixed in the next release. But anyway, it sounds like you indeed may not need a server at all. Regards, Yitz

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

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 -- Magnus Therning                      OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@therning.org   jabber: magnus@therning.org twitter: magthe               http://therning.org/magnus

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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