[R-sig-Debian] R source issue "sarge" or "stable"

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Clint,

Sorry for the delayed reply, but I was away from my computers for several days.

On 6 July 2005 at 11:24, Clint Harshaw wrote:
| Hi Dirk and Douglas:
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| I am a user of Debian and R. My system is a Debian Sarge system, and I 
| want to add the ibiblio mirror to keep my R installation up to date. 
| However, I'm running into some trouble when trying to follow the 
| instructions in the README at this url:
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| http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/linux/debian/README
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| I added the url of the ibiblio mirror and while apt-get upgrade sees the 
| updates that are available, it is not able to download the packages. I 
| think there is an issue with the name of "sarge" vs. "stable" for a 
| directory.
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| The mirrors I've tried (UCLA and ibiblio) are using "stable" in the 
| directory structure, as seen at this url:
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| http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/languages/R/CRAN/bin/linux/debian/stable/
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| But there are references to "sarge" as a directory name.
| 
| Is there a way that I can modify my sources.list to account for this 
| discrepancy, or is the problem with the mirrors not being updated 
| completely?

This mirror is maintained by Christian Steigies to whom I forward this. I
only use testing/unstable myself and cannot help you with this.  But for
broader exposure, I'll CC the r-sig-debian list where someone may have the
pertinent pointer.

Best regards, Dirk


| 
| Thanks very much,
| Clint
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