[R-sig-Debian] [ANNOUNCEMENT] cran2deb: 1700+ new Debian / R packages

[Emmanuel Charpentier]

Le mardi 14 juillet 2009 à 14:09 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :

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> | > 2.  What will it take to do this for Ubuntu?  Are we going to need a
> | > (virtual) machine for each release or can this be done under chroot
> | > jails on one server?
> | 
> | I think, though have never got very far, that differences in package
> | naming will be the main technical problem with supporting Ubuntu in a
> | similar fashion, assuming re-use of the excellent Debian tools
> | (pbuilder, mini-dinstall, etc) with a different set of base packages.
> | 
> | Each release (i.e., debian i386 testing) requires a chroot
> | environment: it could all be done on one machine. We simply use
> | pbuilder. Maybe you would not want to do this for too many releases
> | (bandwidth, disk space, cpu time).
> 
> More details to follow but I may have access to some institutional support
> for this. No details yet though.

Any news on this Ubuntu front ? This announcement *has* seriously
whetted my appetite and almost made me reconsider my decision, a few
years ago, to drop Debian (way too...) unstable in favor of Ubuntu for
everyday work...

					Emmanuel Charpentier