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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 19 August 2009 at 11:18, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote:
| Le mardi 14 juillet 2009 à 14:09 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit :
| 
| [ Snip... ]
| 
| > | > 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

No, sorry. No news.

Dirk

| 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
| 
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