[Rd] R devel repository tarball naming issue

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "HP" == Hervé Pagès <hpages at fhcrc.org>
>>>>>     on Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:21:11 -0700 writes:

    HP> Hi,
    HP> Same here, we rely on these snapshots for the Bioconductor build system.

    HP> ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/

    HP> Now there seems to be a file (or symlink) named R-devel.tar.gz (note
    HP> that the files with a broken name e.g. R-devel_.tar.gz are still here).
    HP> The problem is that after download and extraction I get:

    HP> biocbuild at wilson2:~/src> cat R-devel/SVN-REVISION
    HP> Revision: unknown

    HP> so I have no way to know when this snapshot has been created.
    HP> It used to be that R-devel.tar.gz is in fact a symlink to the
    HP> latest R-devel_YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz located in the same folder but
    HP> that doesn't seem to be the case here. Where are the
    HP> R-devel_YYYY-MM-DD.tar.gz tarballs for the last 10 days?

    HP> Could someone please have a look?

Yes, I now did and have fixed the problem.

It was from an OS change (from Redhat to Fedora) which I had not
checked the way I thought I had ...

I'm sorry for any inconveniences.
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Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich