Message-ID: <6rllldvrnh.fsf@bates4.stat.wisc.edu>
Date: 2004-04-03T02:20:21Z
From: Douglas Bates
Subject: beta_latest links
In-Reply-To: <x2ptapkj96.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>
Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:
> Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:
>
> > Something seems to be wrong with the beta_latest links on cran.at and
> > cran.us. The betas themselves are there (by date) but the link is not
> > right.
>
> Hmm. This has to do with the fact that the dir is now rsynced to CRAN
> rather than mirrored, so the current link (which is correct for the
> build machine) doesn't work:
>
> -rw-r--r-- 1 pd pd 9495783 Apr 2 05:11
> R-1.9.0beta_2004-04-02.tar.gz
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 pd pd 54 Apr 2 05:23
> R-1.9.0beta_latest.tar.gz -> /var/rsync/cran/src/base/R-1.9.0beta_2004-04-02.tar.gz
>
> I suspect that wants to be a relative link. Rsync experts?
Can you change your install script on cvs.r-project.org to use a
relative path name in the symbolic link instead of an absolute path
name?