[R-sig-Fedora] RJAGS Installation Issues

[Martyn Plummer]

Thanks Jeroen. Lars uses OBS as well, so he just added Fedora to his
list of repositories. Fedora RPMs are now available at

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cornell_vrdc/Fedora_20/

Martyn

On Mon, 2014-10-06 at 21:25 +0200, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 8:13 PM, Martyn Plummer <plummerm at iarc.fr> wrote:
> > The primary source of RPMS for JAGS is the repository created by Lars Vilhuber:
> > http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cornell_vrdc/
> >
> > It is true that Lars does not create RPMs for Fedora, presumably because they do not use it at Cornell. I had not thought about this before. I do use Fedora but I always install JAGS from source.
> 
> It is quite easy to (re)build rpm binary packages on another platform
> using the rpm source package. Usually the rpm source package is the
> same for Fedora/CentOS/RHEL, unless you have some exotic dependencies.
> 
> Suse also offers a free build service (OBS) to do the building for
> you. You upload a src rpm (or just give a hyperlink), and their
> machines will build and publish binary rpm's for various distributions
> and architectures of your choice, including Fedora. Thereby you can
> easily manage your own repository, and your admin only has to add the
> repository, and do a yum update once in a while.
> 
> Just for fun, I tried grabbing some src rpms from Lars' centos6 repo
> [1] and build them for Fedora on OBS. I haven't tried installing them
> (not a Fedora user), but all builds were successful so I'm going to
> guess they will work. You can see the overview in [2] and grab
> binaries from [3,4,5] for jags version 1,2 and 3, respectively.
> 
> [1] http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/cornell_vrdc/CentOS_CentOS-6/src/
> [2] https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:jeroenooms:jags
> [3] http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ajeroenooms%3Ajags&package=jags
> [4] http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ajeroenooms%3Ajags&package=jags2
> [5] http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Ajeroenooms%3Ajags&package=jags3

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