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6 messages · Paul Gilbert, Douglas Bates, Peter Dalgaard +1 more

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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.

Paul Gilbert
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Paul Gilbert <pgilbert@bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:
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?

        -pd
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Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:
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?
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Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:
Done, I think. Could you check whether it rsync's better with the new
link?
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Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:
Works for me.  Could one of the CRAN maintainers please make a point
to check it on cran.r-project.org after the next mirror run?
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DougB> Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard@biostat.ku.dk> writes:
    >> Douglas Bates <bates@stat.wisc.edu> writes:
    >> 
    >> > > 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?
    >> 
    >> Done, I think. Could you check whether it rsync's better with the new
    >> link? 

    DougB> Works for me.  Could one of the CRAN maintainers please make a point
    DougB> to check it on cran.r-project.org after the next mirror run?

Just a mere mirror maintainer...
but the beta_latest link is now okay.

Martin Maechler