boostraping an emacs configuration from inside a corporate proxy through a mirror repo

readme.md

Instructions for using emacs behind a draconian corporate firewall

1. git clone spacemacs' elpa mirror or just put the repo inside an usb stick and place the repo in the ~/.emacs.d/mirror-elpa folder.
2. place the provided init.el file in ~/.emacs.d.
3. use the timeless and infinitely powerful editor at will. You now have unlimited access to all of melpa, elpa and orgmode without having to send/receive a single network packet.
4. this also means that instead of taking minutes do download your 100+ packages, it now takes nanoseconds.

Redguardtoo's elpa-mirror

• You can use the same setup to use @redguartoo's elpa-mirror.
• The advantage is that you don't have to wait for d12frosted to update the spacemacs mirror.
• The disadvantage is that you are confined to the packages that you use.

init.el

(require 'package)

(setq package-enable-at-startup nil)
(setq package-archives '(("melpa" . "~/.emacs.d/mirror-elpa/melpa/")
                         ("org"   . "~/.emacs.d/mirror-elpa/org/")
                         ("gnu"   . "~/.emacs.d/mirror-elpa/gnu/")))
(package-initialize)

;; Bootstrap John Wigley's `use-package'
(unless (package-installed-p 'use-package)
  (package-refresh-contents)
  (package-install 'use-package))

; this will install latest version of org-mode even without an internet connection.
;; example use: fetch latest version of `org-mode'
(use-package org
  :pin org ; here I'm using the archive in ~/.emacs.d/mirror-elpa/org/ 
  :ensure org-plus-contrib
  :defer 7)

; this will install evil mode even without an internet connection.
(use-package evil 
  :ensure t
  :config
  (evil-mode))