[R-sig-Debian] arm64 r-base backports on CRAN

[Jeroen Ooms]

Hi Johannes,

I noticed the arm64 repo of r-base on the CRAN mirror seems out of sync for
debian-12 and debian-13, see:
https://github.com/r-devel/containers/actions/runs/29814761647/job/88583421086

Can we help?

Jeroen



On Mon, Jun 30, 2025 at 10:41 AM Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms using gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 29, 2025 at 10:28 PM Johannes Ranke <johannes.ranke using jrwb.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Dirk,
> >
> > Am Dienstag, 24. Juni 2025, 20:20:42 CEST schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> > > Hi Johannes,
> > >
> > > ( And sorry about the fat-finger typo in the earlier email butchering
> your
> > > name.
> >
> > No worries! Happens to the best of us - and to me as well :)
> >
> > > I really need to get proof-reading emails before sending... )
> > > >
> > > On 24 June 2025 at 20:02, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> > > | On Tue, Jun 24, 2025 at 7:55 PM Johannes Ranke <
> johannes.ranke using jrwb.de>
> > wrote:
> > > | > Hey Jeroen,
> > > | >
> > > | > I was recently considering to do this, but did not get around to
> buy
> > > | > hardware or look for hosting on that architecture.
> >
> > I found a nice offer from my hosting provider. The arm64 backports of R
> 4.5.1
> > to Debian 11 (bullseye) and 12 (bookworm) should hit the mirrors at
> midnight.
>
> Thanks! I have enabled these backports in the containers on
> https://github.com/r-devel/containers such that folks can easily use
> these to test R or R packages on those platforms.
>

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