[Rd] beta_latest links

[Douglas Bates]

Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> Paul Gilbert <pgilbert at bank-banque-canada.ca> writes:
> 
> > Something seems to be wrong with the beta_latest links on cran.at and
> > cran.us.  The betas themselves are there (by date) but the link is not
> > right.
> 
> Hmm. This has to do with the fact that the dir is now rsynced to CRAN
> rather than mirrored, so the current link (which is correct for the
> build machine) doesn't work:
> 
> -rw-r--r--    1 pd       pd        9495783 Apr  2 05:11
>  R-1.9.0beta_2004-04-02.tar.gz
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 pd       pd             54 Apr  2 05:23
>  R-1.9.0beta_latest.tar.gz -> /var/rsync/cran/src/base/R-1.9.0beta_2004-04-02.tar.gz
> 
> I suspect that wants to be a relative link. Rsync experts?

Can you change your install script on cvs.r-project.org to use a
relative path name in the symbolic link instead of an absolute path
name?