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

[Johannes Ranke]

Hey, sorry about that! I built the last few releases at Hetzner but their arm64 hardware is booked. So I ordered a Raspi 5 but it has not arrived yet. I would like to stay independent of Github actions with this. May seem silly, but it is what it is. Feel free to step in meanwhile. I will try to get the backport to arm64 done on Sunday at the latest. Cheers, Johannes


Am 21. Juli 2026 12:45:55 MESZ schrieb Jeroen Ooms <jeroenooms using gmail.com>:
>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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