Thomas, I looked into using a Launchpad PPA this morning, and the following line from the help pages (https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA/Uploading) may be an issue for concern:
Note: We will not accept uploads of packages that are unmodified from their original source in Ubuntu or Debian, only packages that include your own changes. Vincent and I do not modify the code from the Debain source packages, just adjust the build rules to fit the current version of Ubuntu. Therefore, a PPA of our R builds would appear to violate the above rule. There has been some discussion about adding R to main (see https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/r-base/+bug/497158). If more packages need R then this may move forward quicker. Another alternative would be request and/or build R packages via the Ubuntu backports system (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports). Michael On 04/27/2010 11:15 AM, Thomas Friedrichsmeier wrote: > Hello Vincent, > > Vincent Goulet schrieb: >> Please also consider that I build these R packages solely as a service >> to the community. I no longer use Ubuntu myself on any of my computers >> (Macs for desktop, Debian stable for servers)! I took quite some time >> to write build scripts to automate most of the process and I'm getting >> ever more resistant to change as time goes by. You may find my scripts >> useful, though; see https://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/svn/R/cran-ubuntu/. > > I can absolutely see your point, and I won't insist, but before I give > up, I will try to convince you once more. > > First, what we are looking for in RKWard, is building packages much more > often than just for every stable release, ideally even daily. This is > not only to make it easier for testers to follow the development, but > also to discover build problems early on, instead of a few days before > the targetted release date. > > I really, really appreciate your work of providing backports of rkward. > But now we want more, and I assume that's more than you'd be willing to > provide for us. This is not beyond the scope of launchpad though, and > basically, all we need to do is to feed it our sources in regular > intervals. However, if we also want to use launchpad to compile against > R backports (and we do want that), then these need to be hosted > somewhere on launchpad. > > The primary audience for your R-backports on launchpad would not be > end-users. Rather this would allow developers to use launchpad PPAs for > compiling their software against your backports - without maintaining > installations of several different releases of Ubuntu on two different > architectures. > > Now, if needs be, we could just fetch your source-packages from CRAN, > and feed them into a launchpad PPA, ourselves. However, keeping that in > sync would mean a bunch of work that we would simply like to avoid. > > Using a launchpad PPA would not only make *our* life a bit easier, but > possibly it could also save *you* some work in the future. For instance, > it might lower the barriers for somebody else to take over > responsibility for the backports one day. In this context, note that > launchpad also allows to set up a PPA for teams of people, not just > individuals. > > Well, I hope this is enough to change your mind, but if it's not, I can > totally understand that as well. > > Regards > Thomas -- Dr. Michael A. Rutter School of Science Penn State Erie, The Behrend College Station Road Erie, PA 16563 http://math.bd.psu.edu/faculty/rutter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ RKWard-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rkward-devel
