Hello, On 03/01/2011 12:26 AM, Tony Travis wrote: > On 28/02/11 22:19, Andreas Tille wrote: >> [...] >> Does it make sense to recalculate a Bioconductor deb repository over >> and over instead of just mirroring the result of one single cran2deb >> run which would be (re)done in a reasonable frequence? > > That's not really what I had in mind - I was thinking more about the > detailed instructions for installing "cran2deb" that Charles > mentioned. It seemed like something that would be more suitable to > encapsulate in a deb package, rather than in a READ_ME for manual > installation. > > Admittedly, few people would install a "cran2deb" package. However, me > and Steffan have both installed "cran2deb" manually from Dirk's SVN. I > was, of course, tempted to create a simple binary package in > completely the wrong way but, so far, I've resisted ;-)
Dirk and Charles were not in favour of having a Debian package for cran2deb in the past. They may have changed their opinion by now. There is a bit of a hen-and-egg problem with r-cran-digest, which is also created by Dirk (as upstream) but not in our main distribution. I had added the "debian" directory to the cran2deb source tree. It works for me - but still leaves some considerable bits for a human soul to fiddle here and there. The build and run time dependencies should all be fine. I suggest to just give it some more time and collect more experiences. Best, Steffen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
