On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:

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> Here is what I sent to scientific-linux-devel
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> The problem is that we have two sets of users.  Those that want the latest R 
> and those that want the stable, this is what we use R.
>
> As each S.L. release comes out, we'll just check and see what the latest R 
> is, and put it in that release.  But we don't update the R in the older 
> releases. So if a person wants to sit on whatever R came with S.L. 4.5, they 
> can just stay at S.L. 4.5.  Or just use the R in S.L. 4.5 and put it in their 
> excludes line for yum.
>
> This will allow us to get a new version out every 6 months, which should keep 
> at least a fair amount of the R users happy, I hope.
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>
> Just so you know, I have put R 2.5.0 into rolling, it should go out with the 
> beta, and I am working on R 2.6.0.  It didn't compile on the first shot, so I 
> need to check and see why.  Hopefully it's something trivial.  If I get it to 
> compile before the beta goes out, I'll put it in.

I know you are all overworked, but did R-2.6 get anywhere?  I just got the 
usual complaint from an R user that 2.6.2 was out and we don't have it 
yet.

If there are changes needed over the previous rpm builds then we may be 
able to pitch in a bit (e.g. (most of) the minor changes I needed for 
building R-2.3 on SL got added to the next version of the specfile they 
supply at http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/SRPMS/R.spec so that 
should hopefully already be _fairly_ close to what is needed).

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