Le mardi 14 juillet 2009 à 14:09 -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel a écrit : [ Snip... ]
> | > 2. What will it take to do this for Ubuntu? Are we going to need a > | > (virtual) machine for each release or can this be done under chroot > | > jails on one server? > | > | I think, though have never got very far, that differences in package > | naming will be the main technical problem with supporting Ubuntu in a > | similar fashion, assuming re-use of the excellent Debian tools > | (pbuilder, mini-dinstall, etc) with a different set of base packages. > | > | Each release (i.e., debian i386 testing) requires a chroot > | environment: it could all be done on one machine. We simply use > | pbuilder. Maybe you would not want to do this for too many releases > | (bandwidth, disk space, cpu time). > > More details to follow but I may have access to some institutional support > for this. No details yet though. Any news on this Ubuntu front ? This announcement *has* seriously whetted my appetite and almost made me reconsider my decision, a few years ago, to drop Debian (way too...) unstable in favor of Ubuntu for everyday work... Emmanuel Charpentier _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian