On Fri, 16 Nov 2007, Troy Dawson wrote: <snip> > Here is what I sent to scientific-linux-devel > ------------------- > 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. > -------------------- > > 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). -- Jon Peatfield, Computer Officer, DAMTP, University of Cambridge Mail: [log in to unmask] Web: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/