On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:19 PM, Michael Rutter <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2012, at 2:20 PM, Dominique Belhachemi <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> On 30 July 2012 at 15:51, Dominique Belhachemi wrote: >>> | Hi everyone, >>> | >>> | I am using the backports from >>> | http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/lucid/ on Lucid and would >>> | like to create a bunch of additional r-cran packages on my workstation. >>> | >>> | Where can I find the latest scripts to automatically create those >>> | packages? Is https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/cran2deb/ still >>> | up-to-date? >>> >>> For Ubuntu, your best bet is Michael's PPA. AFAIK it covers "a large >>> number" >>> of package but does not quite have complete CRAN coverage. See >>> >>> https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/c2d4u >>> >>> >>> For Debian, the less-well-known but equally impressive effort is by Don. See >>> >>> http://debian-r.debian.net/ >>> >>> >>> Our old cran2deb codebase is still there and at the core of both of these, >>> but they essentially branches or "v3.0" implementations. >>> >> >> Thanks Dirk, >> >> http://debian-r.debian.net/ is what I need for Debian. >> >> For Ubuntu, Michael's PPA is huge, but contains only 1 package for >> Lucid. So I will be using Don's github script's to re-build the >> packages I need. >> >> Thanks >> -Dominique > > I started working on c2d4u after lucid and decided it was going to be a lot > of work to start backporting, so I have been concentrating on the latest > releases. > > However, it should be possible to use "apt-get source" with the c2d4u > installed in lucid as only "deb-src", ignore the "deb" part when adding the > ppa to the /etc/apt/sources.list. You would want to use the natty series of > source packages, as they will be as close to lucid as possible. That way you > can download and build from the source packages, at least allowing you to > install the necessary dependencies via "apt-get build-dep foo". > > Two words of caution with this approach. > > 1. Do not add the "deb" line to sources.list. It will cause havoc looking > for natty packages that do not exist. > > 2. Even if you use the natty source packages, lucid will not have the > required versions for some of the dependencies. This issue will still exist > if you use Don's github scripts, as there are differences between lucid > version numbers and what CRAN packages want. Many of the packages will work > fine, but there will be some that will not build due to newer versions of > packages not available under lucid. >
Thank you Michael, I will try both, rebuilding your natty source packages, and using cran2deb for building new R packages from scratch (those which are not available in the repos). -Dominique _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
