"Debain" way of installing packages
Hello! Sorry for late response. I just had to check all this allioth stuf etc.
-----Original Message----- From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:edd@debian.org] Sent: ned 2005-04-24 19:45 To: Gorjanc Gregor Cc: r-sig-debian@r-project.org; pkg-bioc-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org; lawrencc@debian.org Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] "Debain" way of installing packages Hi Gregor, Your enthusiasm in this matter is greatly appreciated. I am CC'ing this to the existing list on the alioth.debian.org hosting system: pkg-bioc-devel. This was initially set up my Matt Hope to foster debianising BioC, I then threw my exisiting Perl infrastructure (used previously for Quantian) at it and Egon Willighagen carried it from there with further improvements, incl. large scale builds of amd64 packages. With a little push from all of us (Hi Tony, Hi Matt, Hi Egon, Hi anybody-else-willing-to-chip-in :) we can make this even better and hopefully have something proper by the summer, maybe for DSC 20003.
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As Tony said in his follow-up, the mixing and matching is hard to do
Yes, mixing is hard and confusing.
properly, which is why I think the high-end solution is to provide a robust script, maybe with a db backend, that debianises what is on CRAN -- similar
What do you mean by a db (I suppose databse) backend, that debianises ...? If I understand you propose to debianize all R packages and then simply use apt-get. This would probably be the easisest way, however only if this is really achivable. My help on debianization can be very small since I have never tried to do that, but I am willing to learn and help. If previous is true, you think that some sort script I proposed is not OK for mixing?
to what exists on Windows. We'd simply use apt-get instead of
What is the case with Windows? Do you mean build of binary packages for Windows or what?
| One more thing. Why is r-noncran-lindsey and not r-other-lindsey?
Because nobody pressed Chris hard enough to implement the change. I am sure he would take a patch from you (hint, hint). From words of Chris this doesn't seems to be needed, however I don't know what is
the problem with that package from Lindsey. Gregor