Some packages are available in cran2deb and Debian. After adding cran2deb to my sources.list it seems the cran2deb ones are favored because X.Y-ZcranN is "more recent" than X.Y-Z.
In the case of r-cran-rmpi the effect of this was to cause aptitude to want to uninstall all my mpi stuff. Apparently the automatically generated package doesn't have mpi as a dependency. I just put a hold on the existing version, and I suppose I could fiddle with apt preferences. Do people have any general advice about how to handle this situation? There probably is no one rule for what to do. The official packages are more carefully done, but the automatic packages may be more recent. At least if they are the same version, I presume the official ones are preferable. But I don't know of a good way of making such a rule automatic. Actually, I'm a bit surprised that official Debian packages are also in cran2deb. Thanks. Ross Boylan _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
