[pkg-bioc] how to proceed?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 19 February 2005 at 18:29, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
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| On 19 February 2005 at 15:33, elijah wright wrote:
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| | >> a while.  Needs CRAN2DEB.PM -- 12kb, Jul 29 2004.  They expect certain 
| | >> directories in certain places -- that is the first thing we need to 
| | >> change: 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 the debs there too...
| | 
| | ermm, are you talking perhaps about /var/cache/apt/archives ?
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| | /var/cache/cran and /var/cache/bioc seem logical.
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| I have no strong feelings about /var/spool/ vs /var/cache/. I guess spool is
| more transient, we could build there.  I'd pick one common parent directory,
| i.e.
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| 	/var/{spool,cache}/r2d/....  
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| Better suggestions for r2d welcome too.

Forgot to add that in either case we should make that directory a
configurable variable because someone may want to build in /home or /tmp
instead ...

Dirk

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