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

[Gorjanc Gregor]

Hello!

Sorry for late response. I just had to check all this allioth stuf etc.=20

> -----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
> =20
> Hi Gregor,
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> 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.
>=20
> 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.

[... snip ...]

> 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