Hi,
I am running a couple of shiny servers with several apps that are based
around own CRAN packages. It worked stable for years, but due to the
growing number of packages, the compile time for regular manual package
installation and updates became inconvenient.
Therefore, I have been very happy to use pre-compiled packages from the
c2d4u repository: deb
https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/c2d4u.team/c2d4u4.0+/ubuntu/ jammy main
This is indeed a great service, thanks to Dirk Edelbuettel, mark Rutter
and the complete team! The downside is, that now the r-cran-* binaries
are installed automatically, together with the system update. I
experienced now repeated cases that crashed some of the shiny apps,
mainly due to conflicts between the binary packages and other packages
installed from sources.
My question: what is best practise, to disallow automatic updates for
all r-cran-* packages? Uncommenting the complete package source in the
apt/sources.list.d/cd4u...list file? Fiddling around with
/etc/apt/preferences ?
The ideal approach would be to put a plain textfile of all installed
r-cran packages somewhere to the system, where packages that are to be
upgraded (or oppositely: pinned) are just commented or outcommented.
Thanks in advance,
Thomas
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