I'd like to snapshot the global Hackage database into a frozen, smaller one for my company's deploys. How can one most easily copy out some segment of Hackage onto a private server?
Here's one script that does it in just about the simplest way possible: https://github.com/jamwt/mirror-hackage
You can also use the MirrorClient directly from the hackage2 repo: http://code.haskell.org/hackage-server/