[R-sig-Debian] building from source after installing Debian packages

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Ramon,

| > Would that be interest?  Does anybody feel like prototyping this /
| > experimenting with it?
| 
| Sure. What can I do? How do I do it? In case architecture matters, I can do 
| and test these sorts of things for Intel Xeons, AMD Opterons (debian-pure64 
| sid), and Intel Centrinos.

Try signing up at alioth.debian.org; you'll get a $USER-guest account as a
non-Debianer (e.g. rdiaz-guest) which we can add to the pkg-bioc project.
There is a bit of code which can already (auto-)build batches packages, but
much remains to be done.  See if you can get hold of the Perl script and make
it work. Also see the pkg-bioc-devel list archives.

Welcome aboard!

Cheers, Dirk

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