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

[Johannes Ranke]

Hey Jeroen,

the raspberry has arrived and I have prepared and uploaded the arm64 backports 
to bookworm and trixie!

Cheers,

Johannes

On Dienstag, 21. Juli 2026 12:45:55 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit Jeroen Ooms 
wrote:
> 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/885834210
> 86
> 
> 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.