[BioC] Where are the new metadata packages

[Jeff Gentry]

> Has a problem been found with the packages?  Or is the problem that
> the new versions have been accidentally removed from the repository?

Sorry, I should have made a general announcement about this.  We're in the
process of splitting the data into two tracks to match our packages, so
that there will be a notion of "release" and "devel" data packages, where
the former is intended to track BioC-Release and the latter BioC-Devel.  I
rolled back what is in the primary metadata repository to be considered
"release" and have created a new "devel" metadata repository.  The problem
is that we're in a temporary state of flux as to how to handle notions of
release/devel in general, which should be cleared up in the very near
future.

In the meantime, a temporary workaround to access the devel metadata
repository can be had with:

'z <- getReposEntry("http://www.bioconductor.org/data/metaData-devel")'

Then you can use z in the 'repEntry' arguments:

'update.packages2(repEntry=z, prevRepos=FALSE)'

The 'prevRepos' argument turns off the default behavior of
update.packages2 which is that it will instead try to update from the
repository which you originally installed the package from.

Example for install.packages2
install.packages2("hgu95av2", repEntry=z)

-J