Hi Mathieu, thanks for contributing your tips on apt pinning on Debian testing. I have included similar instructions in the Debian README for the situation where testing was frozen. This time I thought I would get around to provide proper binaries for testing quickly enough, but I need to get some other work done, so I am lagging behind here.
If someone could provide some lines with nice pinning instructions of text for the Debian README on CRAN, I would be happy to incorporate them, otherwise I will only have time in the weekend to do something (amend the README or set up a new repo for jessie) on the weekend. Cheers, Johannes Am Sonntag, 18. Januar 2015, 20:37:05 schrieb Mathieu Basille: > Le 18/01/2015 15:55, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : > > On 18 January 2015 at 14:14, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > | Ok. I will set up a new toolchain for testing then. We need this for > > | Rocker > > | all the time---eg I just put something marvelous into littler which I > > | need in Rocker, yet Debian is frozen with no timeline for release. And > > | it is silly for us to keep rebuilding all these things when building > > | containers. > > | > > | The three of us should (will !!) work something out that will allow us > > | proper testing support via CRAN, which we can fold into your existing > > | mirror structure. Plan? > > > > Or maybe we just stick with "testing" and set up "unstable" via apt > > pinning > > > > for surgical per-package updates. One of many HOWTOs: > > http://jaqque.sbih.org/kplug/apt-pinning.html > > > > I've used this quite a bit in the past and it "Just Work (TM)". > > Using testing as my regular Debian, this is how I do it: apt pinning on > stable/testing/unstable, with testing on 900, stable on 800, unstable on > 90, and every priority package on > 900. > > Then a selection of R packages from official Debian unstable repositories > are also set up with 900 (I may have missed a few since I didn't update the > list for a while): > > Package: r-base r-base-core r-base-dev r-recommended r-cran-boot > r-cran-cluster r-cran-class r-cran-codetools r-cran-foreign > r-cran-kernsmooth r-cran-lattice r-cran-mass r-cran-matrix r-cran-mgcv > r-cran-nlme r-cran-nnet r-cran-rmatrix r-cran-rpart r-cran-spatial > r-cran-survival r-cran-tkrplot littler > Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable,l=Debian > Pin-Priority: 900 > > Works like a charm... R 3.1.2 from SID. > > Hope this helps! (I can provide a more detailed source.list/preferences if > necessary) > Mathieu. > > > Dirk -- PD Dr. Johannes Ranke Kronacher Str. 8 79639 Grenzach-Wyhlen _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
