stackage-update
This package provides an executable, stackage-update, which provides the same
functionality as cabal update (it updates your local package index). However,
instead of downloading the entire package index as a compressed tarball over
insecure HTTP, it uses git to incrementally update your package list, and
downloads over secure HTTPS.
It has minimal Haskell library dependencies (all dependencies are shipped with
GHC itself) and only requires that the git executable be available on the
PATH. It builds on top of the
all-cabal-files
repository.
Usage
Install from Hackage as usual with:
cabal update
cabal install stackage-update
From then on, simply run stackage-update instead of cabal update.
Why stackage?
You may be wondering why this tool is called stackage-update, when in fact
the functionality is useful outside of the Stackage
project itself. The reason is that the naming
allows it to play nicely with the other Stackage command line tooling.
Concretely, that means that if you have stackage-cli installed, stackage-update
works as a plugin. However, you can certainly use stackage-update on its own
without any other tooling or dependencies on the Stackage project.
