Jon Peatfield wrote: > 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/ Jon, If you can provide a spec file and/or a src.rpm for R, that would be wonderful. If all I need to do is just a recompile, that would help things immensely. I can always just put the releases into Contrib or Testing in between releases. Troy -- __________________________________________________ Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468 Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group __________________________________________________