Dear Paul: Thank you for your help.
> Let me share you a handy thing I learned. You can get the commands > that the R packages are built with, along with the source code. Make > a directory (this will download a bunch of stuff) > > apt-get source r-base-core If I do that, but I obtain r-base-2.10.1 not the last r-2.12.0 files. How can I obtain them? I want to use them to build my own R-patched 2.12.0 version when they arrive. Thank you for your help. I am using the cran.at.r-project.org mirror. > > that should download a tarball of original R source code, a diff file > that is applied to build R deb, and it will open the code and apply > the diff. You can look inside the directory, in a subdirectory > "debian", where the configure files that control package building are > kept. > > If you type "dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot" in the directory where all > that stuff got opened up (the one "above" the debian subdirectory), it > will build the debian packages. It would not be an incredibly > difficult thing to replace that R source package with the new one you > want to use. But I don't think you need to. Just look in the rules > file under debian subdirectory, you will see the configure statement > they use. I think in there you'll also find information about what > devel packages they assume you have. > > I find it to be a little difficult to revise debian builds, so I don't > really mean you ought to do that. But you could. And I often have! > > _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
