[Bioc-devel] R-devel update schedule/strategy for Bioc devel build machines

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gabe Becker" <becker.gabe at gene.com>
> To: bioc-devel at r-project.org, "Jim Fitzgerald" <fitzgerald.james at gene.com>
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2014 10:21:17 AM
> Subject: [Bioc-devel] R-devel update schedule/strategy for Bioc devel build	machines
> 
> Bioc admins,
> 
> We have an automatic build/test mechanism for our internal packages
> which
> we'd like to match the Bioc build machines as closely as possible.
> AFAIU,
> the exact commit-specific version of R-devel used on your devel build
> server changes occasionally within Bioc releases, and we'd like to
> mirror
> those changes on our system.
> 
> Is there a set schedule for when the exact commit of R-devel on your
> build
> server changes?

No. We do it in response to the following events:

- significant changes in the R code
- "seems like a while since we last updated R"
- milestones leading up to release (release candidates, alpha, beta, etc). 

You could scrape the build report daily to see if the version of R has changed.

 Also, do you guys grab them as tarballs, or
> checkout/update
> from the svn?

Tarballs. 
Dan


> 
> Thanks,
> ~G
> 
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