CODEWITHSUNDEEP
haskellhaskell-stack
Saurabh Nanda
Saurabh Nanda

Reputation: 6793

How to download packages without compiling/installing them?

Is there any command-line switch to stack that tells it to download all relevant packages without compiling/installing anything?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 210

Answers (2)

Shersh
Shersh

Reputation: 9179

If you want to download sources of the package locally you can use stack unpack command:

stack unpack typerep-map-0.3.0

The same can be done with cabal-install as well but with cabal get command:

cabal get typerep-map-0.3.0

Upvotes: 0

K. A. Buhr
K. A. Buhr

Reputation: 51109

I think you probably want a combination of the --prefetch and --dry-run flags. For example, the following command:

stack build --prefetch --dry-run acme-missiles

downloads the acme-missiles-0.3.tar.gz source file without building it. If you later run stack build acme-missiles, it should configure and build it from the previously downloaded source.

Upvotes: 5

Related Questions