Re: [Rd] Set up new CRAN mirror; but have questions before finalizing.
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
Re: [Rd] Set up new CRAN mirror; but have questions before finalizing.
On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Friedrich Leisch friedrich.lei...@stat.uni-muenchen.de wrote: On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:00:28 -0600, Paul Johnson (PJ) wrote: Hi, everybody 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. Greetings, Fritz I'm surprised too. All I did was follow the very clear and simple instructions in the HOWTO. I run this script in the folder where the web server lives. $ cat downloadCran.sh rsync -rtlzv --delete cran.r-project.org::CRAN /home/freefaculty/freefaculty.org/cran I promise (sincerely) I changed nothing that forced src or web to 700. I manually put all the directories to permission 755 and then will run an update and see if they stay that way. If all stays well, I'll notify the address listed in the mirror HOWTO that this thing is in California. pj Best regards, Fritz Leisch -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
[Rd] Set up new CRAN mirror; but have questions before finalizing.
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). 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, 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. Notice before update.packages( repos=c(http://www.freefaculty.org/cran;)) Warning: unable to access index for repository http://www.freefaculty.org/cran/src/contrib and after giving others rx permission on src. update.packages( repos=c(http://www.freefaculty.org/cran;)) RandomFields : Version 1.3.47 installed in /usr/local/lib/R/site-library Version 2.0.40 available at http://www.freefaculty.org/cran Update (y/N/c)? So at least that part works. right? 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. If just a couple of you would test this out, I would feel more brave in asking to have this listed on the CRAN mirror system. Regards, pj -- Paul E. Johnson Professor, Political Science 1541 Lilac Lane, Room 504 University of Kansas __ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
Re: [Rd] Set up new CRAN mirror; but have questions before finalizing.
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 ... 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
