On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Friedrich Leisch <friedrich.lei...@stat.uni-muenchen.de> wrote: >>>>>> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:00:28 -0600, >>>>>> Paul Johnson (PJ) wrote: > > > Hi, everybody > > I have an account on Dreamhost.com and when I renewed it recently, > > their message said my usage of storage and bandwidth had been > > reasonably low. In an idle moment about 3 weeks ago, I followed your > > instructions to set up a CRAN mirror on their server. Here it is: > > > http://www.freefaculty.org/cran > > > It is not hosted at my University, but it is a working, high > > availability server. Is there any reason it could not be listed as a > > CRAN mirror. (Although I really have no idea where these machines > > exist. I'm pretty sure it is in the USA. I'll try to find out). > > We would need to know where it is because we lsit mirrors in the US > sorted by state ...
http://ipinfodb.com/ip_locator.php?ip=www.freefaculty.org ? /Henrik > > > > Maybe you might try it and see? It has updated several times, no > > trouble I can see in that. > > > I have a couple of small details to ask about. Maybe this first one > > is a potential "bug report" for the CRAN mirror instructions. > > > 1. Permissions on "src" and "web" folders are 700, > > Then you must have made a mistake in setting up the mirror, because on > the master we have 775 for both directories and all directories within > these two. We also had never complaints about this before. > > > and so running "update.packages" or an apt-get update against the > > debian stuff results in permission denied errors. I re-set the > > permissions manually, but wonder if I'm actually supposed to mess > > around with your archive. After doing that, it works. But I > > worry a little bit about what else might not be readable "down > > there" in the hierarchy. And I wonder why any body else's mirror > > works without doing that. > > Well, they simply mirrored our permissions ... > > > > 2. When I run "apt-get update" against my mirror, i get a lot of > > harassment about the lack of a security key for my repository. Should > > I be publishing an R Core team key to fix that, or my own key to do > > what? I've never administered an apt repository before. I have > > administered yum repositories and the security there is in the key on > > the individual RPMS, I don't quite understand what the Debian thing is > > asking me to do. > > It is quite common then non-official Debian mirrors have no security > key, I would not worry too much about that. > > Best regards, > Fritz Leisch > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel > ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel