[R-sig-Debian] Template for building .deb packages for missing libraries?

[Michael Rutter]

On 01/12/2012 05:08 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote:
>
> Greeting R debianites -
>
> There are a number of R libraries I need debianized (for Ubuntu Maverick
> systems, if it matters) -- ISwR, Hmisc, mosaic, mosaicManip, HSAUR2 --
> which I couldn't find debian packages for.
>
> The structure of R libraries is so regular that I'm guessing surely
> there must be a template for creating debian packages for them, or maybe
> a set of instructions?
>
> Does anyone have such a thing?

Patrick,

I would suggest the Ubuntu Packaging Guide 
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete) as a starting place, 
at the same time using one of the .deb packages found on CRAN as a guide 
to see what Dirk and I (mainly Dirk) add to the source file to create 
the package.  In fact, the first time I built a package from the .tar.gz 
file, I used a lot of the same files from an already existing .deb file.

Hmisc is available on c2d4u 
(https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/c2d4u) for Natty and Oneiric, 
but not for Maverick, the others you mention are not.

Hope this helps,
Michael

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