[pkg-bioc] how to proceed?

[Egon Willighagen]

On Sunday 6 February 2005 20:56, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> On 6 February 2005 at 19:31, "Steffen M=F6ller" wrote:
> | > I also sent a copy to Elijah a few weeks ago when he (rightly) bugged
> | > me about lack of progress on the debianisation of CRAN.
> | >
> | > Shall I repost is again on alioth?  Problem is, the code is a little
> | > messy and dependent on how I had stuff lined up on my box.  Shall we
> | > rewrite that
> | > for alioth, or all individually for our home/work machines?  May be t=
he
> | > latter as we'll need an esoteric mix of build depends as well...
> |
> | I think you should post your latest version to Alioth again. And the we
> | test subversion for parallel changes :-)  Well, maybe a notification to
> | this list would be beneficial prior to starting bigger diffs.
>
> Included below. 13kb, file date here is Sep 4, 2004 so I haven't run it in
> a while.  Needs CRAN2DEB.PM -- 12kb, Jul 29 2004.  They expect certain
> directories in certain places -- that is the first thing we need to chang=
e:
> local mirror of CRAN in /var/spool, say, local packages in /var/lib or
> whatever ...

I'm not a Debian expert but /var/spool sounds the right place... apt stores=
=20
the debs there too...

> I also have a bioc2deb.pl partial rewrite that uses more R for information
> retrieval (given BioC's excellent and very feature rich repostool package=
).
> I never cleanly/fully ported that back to cran2deb.pl, though.

I've briefly looked at the code... i've seen this information in the .pl fi=
le:
=2D some base and recommended package names
=2D some package dependencies
=2D a number of packages that cannot be build (missing dependencies)

Is there more things to configure?

Why are base and recommended named separately? Just to know to build those=
=20
first?

BTW, how did you make a mirror of just the packages instead of the whole of=
=20
CRAN?

Egon

=2D-=20
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