[gentoo-soc] Automatically generated overlay of R packages - progress report #7

[André Erdmann]

Hi everyone,

== Brief summary of this project ==

The aim of this project is to create scripts that automate the process
of overlay creation/maintenance for R packages from repositories such
as CRAN and Bioconductor.

Longer:
For the ebuild creation of a single package one needs to extract the
package, copy-paste data from its description file to the ebuild and
look up dependencies, which is time-consuming.
Although trivial for a few number of packages, this is practically
impossible to do by hand for repositories like CRAN (> 3500 packages),
especially 'cause it also requires tracking changes (new / updated /
removed packages).
The solution is to automate that process and this is what this project is about.

== Progress of this week ==

First of all, I've written a a main script that is capable of running
sync and/or overlay creation. Running (testing) overlay creation for a
local directory with pre-downloaded packages is possible using
'./main.py --from <the package dir>'. Then, I've did some testing and
fixed issues like invalid tokens in metadata.xml and "`" in the
DESCRIPTION variable of ebuilds.
I've also written how to use the config files.

I'm on schedule.

== Plans for the next week ==

Document what I've written so far

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Regards,
André E.