[R-sig-Fedora] RJAGS Installation Issues

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> Martyn Plummer <plummerm at iarc.fr>
>>>>>     on Tue, 7 Oct 2014 16:46:17 +0000 writes:

    > 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

Phantastic!
Thank you very much, Martyn, Jeroen and Lars!

Martin Maechler


    > 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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