[pkg-bioc] CVS %p

[David Vernazobres]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 05:12:51PM +0200, Johannes Ranke wrote :
> * Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> [070420 16:30]:
> > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:34:13PM +0200, Steffen Moeller wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > On Friday 20 April 2007 14:12:16 you wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 12:22:33PM +0200, Johannes Ranke wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > Nice papar! I didn't know we arrived at 1700 packages autobuilt. What I
> > > >
> > > > Yes, David and Steffen did a *ton* of work this as astute readers of
> > > > the cvs list will know :)
> > > >
> > > > > don't understand however, is how the debian autobuilders for 11
> > > > > architectures will/would come into play. I think maintaining 1700
> > > > > packages in Debian would be difficult, even given the quality checks
> > > > > that e.g. CRAN R packages went through.
> > > >
> > > > We don't know either. I think the feeling is that that many packages
> > > > are not maintainable in the same way, so we probably end up offering
> > > > them somewhere else somehow. But first more/better automation...
> > > 
> > > Johannes has directly spotted one of the weaker points of our (accepted) 
> 
> Congratulations!
> 
> > > submission as it mixes two bits:
> 
> > > 
> > > a) Debian is generally good for the provisioning of runtime environments since 
> > > the platform does not matter - the packages are available on them all
definitely, yes. 

> > > b) We can seamlessly redo our automated builds on arbitrary platforms and 
> > > achieve the same cross-platformness even when not using the Debian 
> > > infrastructure directly.
well, we need to replace the debian directory, by the right directory
scheme.

> > Can we?  Or don't we have explicit/implicit dependencies of
> > "Debianness" in terms of 
> > 
> >   a) package availability, 
> >   
> >   b) naming (!!) [ almost every distro calls, say, Postgres libs
> >      something else ]
without talking about libc version, custom version and other,...

> >   c) infrastructure (pbuilder, ...)
well, I think that an equivalent for rpm exist, and it's definitely not a
problem to add this layer.... Or any other kind of builder layer. I was
planning to add cowbuilder, and it's really a matter of few lines (will
happen but latter,...)..

> > > As Dirk pointed out, we are opting for b) with some bits in a).
> > 
> > Maybe we we are able to 'b-1)': redo on "arbitrary hardware provided
> > it runs Debian testing"  :)
> 
> Yep, b-1) is more exact...
> 
> > 
> > As Henry Ford said: You can have the car in any color provided it is
> > black.
> 
> Did anyone try autobuilding on Dapper Drake yet? It would likely be a
> piece of cake to make the stuff work for Ubuntu after pkg-bioc is
> thoroughly tested...

Yes, it's also working,... (tested for test Edgy and Dapper) 
and should be working in all debian based distribution. And this is a
really long list....

david