[Bioc-devel] Custom build of packages

Hi,

On Fr, 2016-04-22 at 10:53 +0000, Morgan, Martin wrote:

All packages are built nightly, in both release and devel, and across
three architectures. The build system is more complicated than
building individual packages -- reverse dependencies need to be
built, too, and successful builds synchronized with public
repositories -- so the nightly builds will not change in the near
future.

The problem is likely that your local configuration is using the
current version of R and Bioconductor, whereas as a developer you
should be using the version of R and Bioconductor used in the 'devel'
branch. The version of R in use on the build machines is given at the
top of the build page

I too have wanted the different build environments
as close to the "official" BioC machines as possible
for debugging. Especially preconfigured VMs or docker images
would be great.

For the latter, you can use

        docker run -ti bioconductor/devel_base bash

but I think even that is a slightly different setup
compared to the official build animals.

I wouldn't even mind if I have to pay amazon (or google or whoever)
a few $$$ to fire-up a clone of the build machines,
log in remotely, and have a clone of the official environment.
Bonus points if that covered windows, mac and Linux alike.

Just my 2c,
Yours,
Steffen




--
IPB Halle                    AG Massenspektrometrie & Bioinformatik
Dr. Steffen Neumann          http://www.IPB-Halle.DE
Weinberg 3                   http://msbi.bic-gh.de
06120 Halle                  Tel. +49 (0) 345 5582 - 1470
                                  +49 (0) 345 5582 - 0
sneumann(at)IPB-Halle.DE     Fax. +49 (0) 345 5582 - 1409