[BioC] biocLite and unknown svn revision

[Dan Tenenbaum]

On Fri, Mar 8, 2013 at 6:16 AM, Martin Morgan <mtmorgan at fhcrc.org> wrote:
> On 03/08/2013 05:28 AM, Michael Lawrence wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> My Linux package manager supports building packages from svn, but it
>> exports the files into a sandbox directory prior to building. This causes
>> 'svn info' to fail in the R build process. (It would probably be cleaner
>
>
> This thread
>
>   https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/2013-February/065886.html
>
> is in essence the same issue (Matrix tests svn revision to determine
> exports, svn revision is not defined in the way the user is building R), and
> it might be helpful to bring this up in your context on R-devel.
>
>
>> for R to record the svn revision in an svn hook, but that's besides the
>> point). Before October, the unknown revision was indicated by the
>> "unknown"
>> string, and biocLite would emit a warning (but not an error). Since
>
>
> Can you connect the dots a bit more for me, please, I'm not understanding
> where this warning / error is coming from?
>

I think from BiocInstaller:::.checkSvnRevision()?

Dan




> Martin
>
>
>> October, the data type of the R_SVN_REVISION has changed to integer, and
>> unknown is indicated by -99. Could this be added to the check in
>> BiocInstaller?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Michael
>>
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