Message-ID: <4AA02842.3030202@fhcrc.org>
Date: 2009-09-03T20:34:10Z
From: Hervé Pagès
Subject: R devel repository tarball naming issue
In-Reply-To: <19103.35935.70973.765877@lynne.math.ethz.ch>
Thanks Martin! The latest snapshot (R-devel_2009-09-03.tar.gz) looks OK.
FYI the tarballs with a broken name are still here
(ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/):
R-devel_.tar.bz2
R-devel_.tar.gz
Cheers,
H.
Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "HP" == Herv? Pag?s <hpages at fhcrc.org>
>>>>>> on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:21:11 -0700 writes:
>
> HP> Hi,
> HP> Same here, we rely on these snapshots for the Bioconductor build system.
>
> HP> ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/
>
> HP> Now there seems to be a file (or symlink) named R-devel.tar.gz (note
> HP> that the files with a broken name e.g. R-devel_.tar.gz are still here).
> HP> The problem is that after download and extraction I get:
>
> HP> biocbuild at wilson2:~/src> cat R-devel/SVN-REVISION
> HP> Revision: unknown
>
> HP> so I have no way to know when this snapshot has been created.
> HP> It used to be that R-devel.tar.gz is in fact a symlink to the
> HP> latest R-devel_YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz located in the same folder but
> HP> that doesn't seem to be the case here. Where are the
> HP> R-devel_YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz tarballs for the last 10 days?
>
> HP> Could someone please have a look?
>
> Yes, I now did and have fixed the problem.
>
> It was from an OS change (from Redhat to Fedora) which I had not
> checked the way I thought I had ...
>
> I'm sorry for any inconveniences.
> ---
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich
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