On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 02:55:59PM -0500, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > I have packaged the Ra extension for just-in-time compilation to GNU R (see > ITP #479233 for details). It comes as a tarball to be installed on top of > the GNU R sources. > > So I created a new hybird tarball of the two sources. Not elegant as it > creates a 16mb tarball containing a copy of GNU R's 16mb tarball when we'd > just need the 372kb of 'new' Ra files. > > As an alternative, could I just start from Ra source, and then in > debian/rules obtain r-base's orig.tar.gz, untar it and then apply the Ra > sources to it? Or is that too fragile? > I believe that the package build should be able to succeed even in the absence of a network connection.
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com
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