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 >
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