[Spam: 6.18 ] Re: [pkg-bioc] Problem building CRAN packages

[Johannes Ranke]

Hi Gregor,

* Gregor Gorjanc <gregor.gorjanc at gmail.com> [060620 11:20]:
> Hello Johannes,
> 
> Johannes Ranke wrote:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > After fixing a small typo in cran2deb.pl (committed), and adding a
> > couple of build-dependencies to the 
> > 
> ...
> > 3) Did anybody ever create a condensed version of cran2deb.pl for
> > building just an exactly defined subset of packages? I'd be interested.
> 
> I can not say anything about first two points, but I would also like to
> see the functionality that you mention i.e. create debs only for
> particular package. Up to now I have done this by removing all unwanted
> R packages from build directory. But this can be a bit tedious. Perhaps

I think this could more easily be controlled by only downloading .tar.gz
files and .DESCRIPTION files for some packages, controlled by a small
script.

> an argument could be added i.e. something similar as
> 
> ./cran2deb.pl --package="myPackage"

I am thinking about a defined set of packages, which may of course well
consist of a single package only.

> This would then provide a bit of functionality as dh-make-perl does for
> perl modules. It would be handy to have the same tool for R. Perhaps
> this would also relax need for maintainers for every R package. I really
> doubt that there will be enough manpower to cover all R packages.

I don't know how much work it would be to work out the kind of build
failures that I reported (and which I didn't expect). Having to find
them manually, and putting the names into cran2deb.pl one after the other 
is tedious.

> However, I think that a reasonably small team could handle the
> dependencies and debian users of R could build debian packages by
> themselves or get them from some repository.

> P.S. Can you please add also package R2WinBUGS into the list of
> packages. 

I have no plans to set up a repository with packages at the moment. I 
just want to see how far the automatic build process works and how
reliable it is, and maybe prepare a small number of packages for
sponsored uploads to Debian.

Thanks for your comments!

Johannes

> This is an R package that runs WinBUGS. WinBUGS is a MS
> windows application, but it runs nicely under wine. So wine should be
> added in depends for R2WinBUGS. All communication between R and WinBUGS
> is done in R2WinBUGS package! Of course user needs to have WinBUGS
> installed, but that should be done by the user himself.
> 
> -- 
> Lep pozdrav / With regards,
>     Gregor Gorjanc
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