[pkg-bioc] Re: Bioconductor Debian packages

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 27 July 2005 at 09:46, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| >On 26 July 2005 at 22:02, Faheem Mitha wrote:
| >| 
| >| 
| >| On Wed, 27 Jul 2005, Steffen Moeller wrote:
| >| 
| >| > Hi Faheem,
| >| >
| >| > I updated the Packages list after tpday's update. Please try again and
| >| > thank you for pointing this out.
| >| 
| >| There seems to be a bit of a conflict here.
| >| 
| >| Unpacking r-bioc-limma (from .../r-bioc-limma_1.10.0-0.r2d.1_all.deb) ...
| >| dpkg: error processing 
| >| /var/cache/apt/archives/r-bioc-limma_1.10.0-0.r2d.1_all.deb (--unpack):
| >|   trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/R/site-library/limma/DESCRIPTION', which is 
| >| also in package r-cran-limma
| >
| >The script tries to account for packages appearing in both CRAN and BioC, but
| >Limma must have slipped through.
| >  
| >
| Yip. On the other hand I am not certain that this is too bad. Sometimes

I am. Uninstallable packages are serious bugs. End of story in my book :)

| the versions differ between CRAN and BIOC. The dependencies are all to
| CRAN-limma, aren't they?

But our code drives that, no? And we could set it to r-bioc-limma and set it
to ignore limma from BioC.

Cheers, Dirk
 
| Many greetings
| 
| Steffen

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