[Bioc-devel] Custom build of packages

[Steffen Neumann]

Hi,

On Fr, 2016-04-22 at 10:53 +0000, Morgan, Martin wrote:
> All packages are built nightly, in both release and devel, and across
> three architectures. The build system is more complicated than
> building individual packages -- reverse dependencies need to be
> built, too, and successful builds synchronized with public
> repositories -- so the nightly builds will not change in the near
> future.
> 
> The problem is likely that your local configuration is using the
> current version of R and Bioconductor, whereas as a developer you
> should be using the version of R and Bioconductor used in the 'devel'
> branch. The version of R in use on the build machines is given at the
> top of the build page

I too have wanted the different build environments 
as close to the "official" BioC machines as possible 
for debugging. Especially preconfigured VMs or docker images 
would be great.

For the latter, you can use 

	docker run -ti bioconductor/devel_base bash 

but I think even that is a slightly different setup 
compared to the official build animals. 

I wouldn't even mind if I have to pay amazon (or google or whoever) 
a few $$$ to fire-up a clone of the build machines, 
log in remotely, and have a clone of the official environment.
Bonus points if that covered windows, mac and Linux alike.

Just my 2c,
Yours,
Steffen




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