[Rd] R devel repository tarball naming issue

[Hervé Pagès]

Thanks Martin! The latest snapshot (R-devel_2009-09-03.tar.gz) looks OK.

FYI the tarballs with a broken name are still here
(ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R/):

   R-devel_.tar.bz2
   R-devel_.tar.gz

Cheers,
H.


Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> "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.
> ---
> Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich

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