Re: [R] building RPMs for R packages

2003-06-15 Thread Cooper Bethea
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 17:46, Peter Dalgaard BSA wrote: > Actually, the problem of making sure that N computers all have the > same set of RPMs installed is not terribly scalable either... > > Centralized software maintenance is a pretty obvious thing to do, but > I often suspect RedHat (and sever

Re: [R] building RPMs for R packages

2003-06-14 Thread Peter Dalgaard BSA
Cooper Bethea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the reason i need to build a package here (and the reason any other sys. > admin on an rpm-based system should) is because packages not installed > under rpm have a chance of breaking during system upgrades. in order to > maintain my sanity, i need to kn

Re: [R] building RPMs for R packages

2003-06-14 Thread Cooper Bethea
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 04:12, Martin Maechler wrote: > I'm not really answering your primary question, > BUT - don't you share some file system(s) between all clients? *share library directory across cluster* > > - if you don't share any file systems {quite improbable} AND *distribute l

Re: [R] building RPMs for R packages

2003-06-14 Thread Martin Maechler
> "Cooper" == Cooper Bethea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > on 13 Jun 2003 14:28:02 -0400 writes: Cooper> hi all- apologies if this question has come up Cooper> before; i took a swing through a few months of Cooper> archives and didn't turn anything up. Cooper> i'm a linux syste

[R] building RPMs for R packages

2003-06-13 Thread Cooper Bethea
hi all- apologies if this question has come up before; i took a swing through a few months of archives and didn't turn anything up. i'm a linux systems administrator, and we're running R across a beowulf cluster. i've been asked to install the bioconductor package, for which i can't find RPMs. th