On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 01:29:38AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Dirk Eddelbuettel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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? > > > > Comments, anyone? > > > > Dirk > > You can't assume that buildds have deb-src lines or even network > connectivity. > > But there are 2 things you can do: > > 1) Become a comaintainer of r-base and add the JIT patches to the > package. You would then build r-base and r-base-jit (for example) from > the same source. > > 2) You can do is convince the r-base maintainer to create an > r-base-source.deb containing the source and Build-Depend on that.
Yes, I should definitely talk more to myself. Thanks to all for the follow-up. Will no assume network access and go the low-key route for packaging. Dirk -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
