[pkg-bioc] issues with pbuilder circumvented

[Steffen Moeller]

Dear David,

the problems that occurred with latest pbuilder release are with 
the --bindmounts option. These are not released a build failures, so my 
hunch.

What I have done locally is to set up apache to server the 
{cran,bioc-2.1,omegahat}/builds folders and added these as deb http packages 
to /etc/apt/sources.list, substituing the deb file:// ../builds directives 
and also omitting the --bindmounts. This seems to work. I could upload a 
whole lot of cran the day after and 1953 packages were reported to have 
worked on. The builds directories of bioc-2.1 and omegahat however were 
deleted and although the screen output lists several successful builds, these 
are all gone. I presume some weird bug in the scripts here, like rm -r 
builds/$package with [ -z "$package" ].

My local r_pkg_prepare.pl now also creates an index.html file. I will further 
work on that to make it an optional behaviour and then commit my changes.

What this also means is that just because I needed a server for my build 
process, we (technically) also have a server for you all ... mine. Well, for 
the folks runnign sparc and only being interested in CRAN - raise your hands 
out there :o) Anybody interested in alpha testing, at least the _all packages 
should work, please send me an email to learn about the URL. 

Cheers,

Steffen