[Rd] sources of 2.4.0 patched

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 28 October 2006 at 22:15, Martin Maechler wrote:
| >>>>> "Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
| >>>>>     on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 08:30:38 -0500 writes:
| 
|     Dirk> On 28 October 2006 at 00:18, Peter Dalgaard wrote: |
|     Dirk> apjaworski at mmm.com writes: | > I get the tarballs form
|     Dirk> ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R and I | >
|     Dirk> noticed that the only R-patched there is dated
|     Dirk> 2006-10-03, while R-devel is | > up to 2006-10-25.
|     Dirk> Did, by any chance, a depository for the R-patched | >
|     Dirk> tarballs move someplace else, or is the 2006-10-03
|     Dirk> version the latest one.  | | To my knowledge,
|     Dirk> neither. Something has gone wrong. The build date on |
|     Dirk> the file is Oct 27... I suspect that the svn update is
|     Dirk> somehow failing | on the machine that does the builds
|     Dirk> (i.e. it just keeps on building | from the 2006-10-03
|     Dirk> checkout).
| 
|     Dirk> That seems to be the case again this morning.
| 
| but no longer now.

Thanks!

| [A  "svn cleanup"  was needed.
|  I've amended the cron-job script to do an "svn cleanup" now 
|  always before "svn update".  This of course is a waste of time in
|  99.9% of cases; but it's just a CPU's time, not a person's ....]
| 
| Usually such problems would be solved more quickly if someone
| e-mailed me directly...

Put a README into the directory ?

[ BTW SVN 1.4.0, now in Debian testing testing apparently shrinks archive
size by a third but you need to 'dump' and 'restore'. ]

Dirk

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