On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Ross Boylan <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > Hmm, my experience has been different: Debian packages were preferred over cran2deb. Can you give a specific example that bugs you?
> 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. > Wouldn't it be sufficient to set mpi as "manually installed", as opposed to automatically, as a dependency? > Do people have any general advice about how to handle this situation? > You might want to try an approach similar to this [1]. [1] https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-sig-debian/2009-December/000970.html > 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 > I am curious, what makes you think so? Regards Liviu _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
