h1. How to set up a "hackage":http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/hackage.html mirror 1. @cd@ to a clean directory where you want your hackage mirror to be 2. Download package index: bc. wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/00-index.tar.gz 3. This package index contains .cabal files of all packages that are available on hackage in /packages/archive/$package/$version/$package-$version.tar.gz. However, this is an exception for hackage.haskell.org, added and maintained by some moron. If your host is different, you have to serve them as /package/$package-$version.tar.gz. So, here's a shell script that downloads and places them for you: bc. for splitpk in `tar tf 00-index.tar.gz | cut -d/ -f 2,3`; do pk=`echo $splitpk | sed 's|/|-|'` name=$pk.tar.gz if [ ! -a package/$name ]; then wget http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/$splitpk/$name -O package/$name fi done That is all! You can serve this directory as hackage mirror. Here's a shell script that does it all for you: [http://gist.github.com/562813] I also run a "hackage mirror":http://dump.bitcheese.net/hackage myself, with rsync support (see "howto-rsync.txt":http://dump.bitcheese.net/hackage/howto-rsync.txt).