[R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu packages on s390x

[Vivian Kong]

Thanks Dirk, Jeroen for all the useful information you provided!  Let me take this back to my team to figure out what we need and how to proceed.

Regards,

Vivian Kong
Linux on IBM Z Open Source Ecosystem
IBM Canada Toronto Lab

From: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd using debian.org>
Date: Thursday, August 3, 2023 at 6:41 PM
To: Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms using gmail.com>
Cc: Vivian Kong <vivkong using ca.ibm.com>, r-sig-debian using r-project.org <r-sig-debian using r-project.org>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: [R-sig-Debian] Ubuntu packages on s390x

On 4 August 2023 at 00:06, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
| On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 9:16 PM Vivian Kong <vivkong using ca.ibm.com> wrote:
| >
| > Hello,
| >
| > Are there any plans to add R packages for Ubuntu on other architectures in addition to amd64?  We are looking for s390x packages as the version from the distro's package manger is 4.2.2.  I'm happy to help in any way I can.
|
| You can easily do this for free using launchpad:
|
| Create a launchpad repository (PPA), then go to "change settings", and
| there you can select which architectures to build. By default only
| amd64 is enabled, but you can enable any from the following:
|
|  AMD x86-64 (amd64)
|  ARM ARMv8 (arm64)
|  ARM ARMv7 Hard Float (armhf)
|  Intel x86 (i386)
|  PowerPC (powerpc)
|  PowerPC64 Little-Endian (ppc64el)
|  IBM System z (s390x)
|
| Now you just upload the r-base source packages to the PPA and they get
| built for all these architectures. You can do this from the command
| line, but you can even simply copy them from Michael Rutter's
| backports ppa:
|
| Go to https://launchpad.net/~marutter/+archive/ubuntu/rrutter4.0/  then
| click "view package details" and then "copy packages". Select the
| distro (e.g. jammy), then the r-base package and select "Rebuild the
| copied sources" to r-base to your own PPA. That's it, it will
| automatically build and publish the binaries.
|
| I tested that this actually works here:
| https://launchpad.net/~jeroen/+archive/ubuntu/r-backports  . You can
| see the repo has s390x binaries for r-4.3.1 and the page lists
| installation instructions using apt.

Thanks for that, Jeroen. That is very helpful esp with the direct GUI
integration.

OpenSuSE's 'Open Build Service' is also quite nice but more involved.

Dirk

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