All free packages of CRAN an BioConductor built for Debian and Ubuntu
Dear all,
the Debian Med Sprint on Bioinformatics saw a phone call from Christian's mobile across the Atlantic and there was no way back
after that: we have run the cran2deb [1] routines from Charles and Dirk on all of CRAN and Bioconductor for the amd64 platform.
This means that every package was built with pbuilder, the most reliable confirmation to know the dependencies set right. The
process has been completed for Debian and is still running for Ubuntu. We are now keen to get feedback from the list to learn if
the packages are up to your all's expectations and/or what there should be done to them before announcing their availability to
the world at large.
The architecture-independent packages from Debian should be bit-identical to what a rebuild on Ubuntu produces. We will test that
hypothesis over the upcoming days. The packages are produced for both 64-bit Debian squeeze and Bio-Linux6/Ubuntu 10.04 LTS. For
the binary packages however we _do_ expect differences when there are different sonames for libraries in the individual
distributions. But again, for most packages there should be no difference between our two worlds. It would be nice if some R
professionals on Ubuntu could confirm that what is installable from the Debian-produced repository is also working nicely for them.
The repositories of CRAN and BioConcuctor are at
Debian: http://master.dermacloud.uni-luebeck.de/cran2deb/rep/
Ubuntu: http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/cran2deb/rep/
With best regards and many many thanks to all who were involved
Tony and Steffen
[1] https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/cran2deb/
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