hackage mirroring program

Download hackage contents for the purpose of mirroring with http server. This should be useful for isolated LAN environments or lasting periods of being offline.

input:

• path to hackage.json
• path as a base for downloaded files
• path to excluded packages list file

All inputs have default values, refer to mirror-hackage --help.

output:

• files and directories, preserving original url structure, containing:
  • packages archives
  • all revisions (metadata) of cabal package descriptions
  • TODO: html pages

build

nix

nix-build -A mirror-hackage.components.exes.mirror-hackage

The built binary gets available in ./result/bin/mirror-hackage.

stack

$ stack build

The built executable gets available as stack exec -- mirror-hackage.

usage

Get recent hackage.json. Run mirror-hackage provided with hackage.json in the current directory or passed via --hackage-json command line option.

Download can be stopped (Ctrl+C) at any moment and resumed later.

stats

As of 2020-07-06 running mirror-hackage means downloading of 251k files, 13 GiB.