elpa-mirror (v2.1.0)

Create local Emacs package repository.

Only installed packages will be included in the repository.

Please note console command tar and cp is required.

Why

15 seconds to install 115 packages
The repository could be hosted on USB/Dropbox/GitHub, so you can install packages behind corp firewall
Tested with Emacs 23.4, Emacs 24.3, Emacs 24.4, Emacs 24.5 on OSX/Cygwin/Windows/Linux

Install

Download elpa-mirror.el to somewhere (say “~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/elpa-mirror”)
Add below code into your ~/.emacs,

(add-to-list 'load-path "~/.emacs.d/site-lisp/elpa-mirror")
(require 'elpa-mirror)

If you use native Windows Emacs, you need install Cygwin or MSYS2.

Usage

M-x elpamr-create-mirror-for-installed to create local repository.

To use the repository. Say it’s “~/myelpa”, insert below code into your ~/.emacs,

# myelpa is the ONLY repository now
(setq package-archives '(("myelpa" . "~/myelpa")))

Tips

Change output directory,

(setq elpamr-default-output-directory "~/myelpa")

Create repository in Shell

You don’t need even install elpa-mirror if running it in shell,

mkdir -p ~/myelpa && emacs --batch -l ~/.emacs.d/init.el -l ~/any-directory-you-prefer/elpa-mirror.el --eval='(setq elpamr-default-output-directory "~/myelpa")' --eval='(elpamr-create-mirror-for-installed)'

Repository on Dropbox

Insert below code into .emacs:

;; all-to-list will not override default elpa.
;; So now you have two repositories.
;; One is GNU elpa. Another is myelpa
(add-to-list 'package-archives
             '("myelpa" . "https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/858862/myelpa/"))

Repository on GitHub

My repository is https://github.com/redguardtoo/myelpa.