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From: Christian Lindig <lindig@gmail.com>
To: caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: [Caml-list] Running an Opam Cache?
Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2016 08:34:55 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AF14B101-A2B6-4059-BB04-DEB72F22315F@gmail.com> (raw)


Opam is the best way to install OCaml packages. By default it will download each package from the URL provided in a package and thus it relies on these being available over the internet. This entails a danger that they might not, or change (although the checksum provides some protection). Is there a way to setup an Opam repository locally such that an "opam install” would download (selected) sources from a local archive?

I understand that packages can be pinned locally using each package’s Git repo and this would work if each package also includes its opam files. I am looking for a way to populate the cache with the tar/zip files that the Opam packages point to.

— Christian


             reply	other threads:[~2016-10-30  8:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-10-30  8:34 Christian Lindig [this message]
2016-10-31 18:25 ` Thomas Gazagnaire
2016-10-31 21:37   ` Hezekiah M. Carty
2016-11-01 20:21     ` Thomas Gazagnaire

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