This could be a nice feature and not hard to implement, maybe someone could take it up?
2011/4/7 José Pedro Magalhães <[email protected]> > 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 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 11:21, Marc Weber <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] jabber: [email protected] >> twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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