[Bioc-devel] how to create my own repository of mac os x binaries?

[Seth Falcon]

Hi Paul,

Paul Shannon <pshannon at systemsbiology.org> writes:
> I made a few naive attempts to create such a repository.
> In my last attempt,
>
>     1) I built the binaries on a mac
>     2) moved them to <package-base>/bin/macosx/powerpc/contrib/2.3/
>     3) rebuilt the repository (using repos tools).

When you say "using repos tools", can you give us a bit more detail?
I'm afraid you may be using the deprecated reposTools package. 

To create the control files that install.packages and friends will
look for, you want the write_PACKAGES function which is in the tools
package (comes with R).

> Can anyone help me out of my muddle here?  Perhaps point
> me towards some instructions explaining the directory
> structures and techniques used to provide binary packages
> in a repository?

A CRAN-style repository (that's what you want) looks like this:

some_root/-
           |
           - src/contrib/
           |             |
           |             - PACKAGES 
           |             |
           |             - *.tar.gz packages here
           |
           - bin/
                 |
                 - windows/contrib/2.3/
                 |                     |
                 |                     - PACKAGES
                 |                     |
                 |                     - *.zip packages here
                 |
                 - macosx/ppc/contrib/2.3/
                                          |
                                          - PACKAGES
                                          |
                                          - *.tgz packages here



+ seth