On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 2:25 PM Thomas Gazagnaire <thomas@gazagnaire.org>
wrote:

> > 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.
>
> There are various ways to do it, the easiest one would be to use
> `opam-admin`:
>
> ```
> $ git clone https://github.com/ocaml/opam-repository
> $ cd opam-repository
> $ opam-admin make --resolve [an optional list of packages to limit the
> size of the cache]
> $ opam remote add local-cache .
> ```
>

Is there an existing automated tool to do the same for compilers?  Or just
download the source + edit the compilers/*/*/*.comp files by hand/script?

This will, I suspect, be simpler with opam 2.0 and compilers-as-packages.

Thanks,

Hez