On 19 August 2009 at 11:18, Emmanuel Charpentier wrote: | 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
No, sorry. No news. Dirk | 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 -- Registration is open for the 2nd International conference R / Finance 2010 See http://www.RinFinance.com for details, and see you in Chicago in April! _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian