On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Dan Bolser <dan.bolser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 2008/9/2 Tom spot Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> On Sun, 2008-08-31 at 18:12 +0100, Dan Bolser wrote: >> >>> Now is there any way to cross check these against what R actually has >>> installed? I am trying to think about ways that the R-installer could >>> be used in combination with the packages... or is the idea to package >>> the whole of CRAN? Where would such a repo be maintained? How would it >>> be kept in sync with CRAN? >> >> Well, I'm certainly not so bored as to want to repackage all of CRAN. :) >> >> I think the safest thing is to query R for what it has installed, and >> not be concerned about whether it was built manually from CRAN, or >> provided pre-built by Fedora. In researching the possibility of having userland rpm, there was a suggestion that dummy packages be created for the base system rpms, so that dependencies will be resolved against the system versions. This raises the possibility of a tool to create dummy rpm's for packages installed by R. That way, rather than the user having to check dependencies across 2 different package management systems, there could a command to create dummy rpms for manually built CRAN packages. These could be "installed" so they would be used by rpm to resolve dependencies in pre-built Fedora rpms. > OK, and then packages from Fedora with deps in CRAN that have been > locally built can be installed right? Can we set up the RPM so that it > can 'query R for what it has installed' for the purposes of resolving > such deps? > > Is this what happens already? With R, users can manually install CRAN package from source to $HOME/R/library... I doubt that can be handled using the system rpm database -- you would need a database owned by each user. Since some sites are moving to a model that separates user applications from the base system, there is a need for packaging that does not require root access simply to maintain the rpm database. -- George N. White III <aa056@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia _______________________________________________ Fedora-r-devel-list mailing list Fedora-r-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-r-devel-list
