[pkg-bioc] Re: [R-sig-Debian] "Debain" way of installing packages

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 24 April 2005 at 19:58, Egon Willighagen wrote:
| On Sunday 24 April 2005 19:45, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| > 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.
| 
| What remains to be done? I think we can compile most of the CRAN packages 
| automatically with the Perl script on Alioth... there are some packages that 
| won't work at this moment, for various reasons, but I think 80+ percent gets 
| debianized. The resulting packages are quite Lintian ok, and I think the 
| packages are actually tested if they work during the process...
| 
| Dirk, you mentioned a few times some remaining bugs. What are the things you 
| feel that need to be fixed before we can try an setup a repository?

Not sure. We probably just need to "keep on rolling" to experience the bugs
and squish.

I am somewhat behind the eight ball in terms of other committments, so I am
not sure I can get to it.  Does anybody feel like like starting this for
i386?  Would be nice to complement R 2.1.0 with a few hundred apt-get'able
packages, and even nice if you can add the same for amd64. Any powerpc users
here who could run a chroot?

In terms of space and bandwidth, I could put them into people.debian.org as
alioth appears to be permanently full.  Anybody else have space?  

Tony: Could we / should we put them onto opus?

Cheers, Dirk

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