[R-sig-Debian] "Debain" way of installing packages

[Gorjanc Gregor]

Hello!

Sorry for late response. I just had to check all this allioth stuf etc. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dirk Eddelbuettel [mailto:edd at debian.org]
> Sent: ned 2005-04-24 19:45
> To: Gorjanc Gregor
> Cc: r-sig-debian at r-project.org; pkg-bioc-devel at lists.alioth.debian.org; lawrencc at debian.org
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Debian] "Debain" way of installing packages
>  
> Hi Gregor,
> 
> Your enthusiasm in this matter is greatly appreciated. I am CC'ing this to
> the existing list on the alioth.debian.org hosting system: pkg-bioc-devel.
> This was initially set up my Matt Hope to foster debianising BioC, I then
> threw my exisiting Perl infrastructure (used previously for Quantian) at it
> and Egon Willighagen carried it from there with further improvements,
> incl. large scale builds of amd64 packages.
> 
> With a little push from all of us (Hi Tony, Hi Matt, Hi Egon, Hi
> anybody-else-willing-to-chip-in :) we can make this even better and hopefully
> have something proper by the summer, maybe for DSC 20003.

[... snip ...]

> As Tony said in his follow-up, the mixing and matching is hard to do
Yes, mixing is hard and confusing.

> properly, which is why I think the high-end solution is to provide a robust
> script, maybe with a db backend, that debianises what is on CRAN -- similar
What do you mean by a db (I suppose databse) backend, that debianises ...?

If I understand you propose to debianize all R packages and then simply use
apt-get. This would probably be the easisest way, however only if this is really
achivable. My help on debianization can be very small since I have never tried
to do that, but I am willing to learn and help.

If previous is true, you think that some sort script I proposed is not OK for
mixing?

> to what exists on Windows. We'd simply use apt-get instead of
What is the case with Windows? Do you mean build of binary packages for Windows
or what?

> | One more thing. Why is r-noncran-lindsey and not r-other-lindsey?

> Because nobody pressed Chris hard enough to implement the change. I am sure
> he would take a patch from you (hint, hint).
>From words of Chris this doesn't seems to be needed, however I don't know what is
the problem with that package from Lindsey.

Gregor