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Hi everyone, |
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== Brief summary of this project == |
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The aim of this project is to create scripts that automate the process |
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of overlay creation/maintenance for R packages from repositories such |
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as CRAN and Bioconductor. |
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Longer: |
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For the ebuild creation of a single package one needs to extract the |
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package, copy-paste data from its description file to the ebuild and |
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look up dependencies, which is time-consuming. |
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Although trivial for a few number of packages, this is practically |
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impossible to do by hand for repositories like CRAN (> 3500 packages), |
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especially 'cause it also requires tracking changes (new / updated / |
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removed packages). |
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The solution is to automate that process and this is what this project is about. |
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== Last week's progress == |
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* Added functionality to get packages via http, either by reading a |
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local file with package uris or by parsing a remote's PACKAGES file |
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This allows to use repos that don't offer rsync access as well as to |
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include single packages (without downloading them manually). |
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* ebuilds now report missing optional deps during pkg_postinst |
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* misc changes based on test results (like dependency rules, removing |
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"from http://...." text from dependency strings) |
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* an live ebuild (and a setup.py script for the python modules) |
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== Plans for this week == |
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* write documentation |
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Regards, |
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André E. |
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