Fetching all Quicklisp projects

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

I am forwarding these lines from Zach Beane, explaining how to download all packages from quicklisp. I personally use it to propagate the libraries from one test box to another in the hope that it reduces pressure on the original repo.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Zach Beane 

To get a copy of all Quicklisp projects, you can do this:

  (in-package ql-dist-user)
  (map nil 'ensure-installed (provided-systems t))

From there, ~/quicklisp/ can be archived and that archive can be
unpacked anywhere, either somewhere else on the same system or on
another system to have a mirror of everything in Quicklisp.

Everything is referenced relative to the path to [quicklisp]/setup.lisp,
so relocating it is no issue.

Hope this helps,
Zach

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