From Bioinformatics.Org Wiki

We are still in the planning of bringing together all the ideas and all the infrastructure.

Contents 1 What do we want to do? 2 What do we have? 3 To be determined 4 Wiki TODO

What do we want to do?

• Build a RPM repository for R packages
• Support 4 systems:
  • CentOS 5 i386 and x86_64
  • Latest version of Fedora i686 and x86_64
• Build RPM from:
  • CRAN
  • BioConductor
  • R-forge

What do we have?

• [R2spec] the tool used to generate the RPMs
• 3 machines:
  • x86_64 GNU/Linux with CentOS release 5.2 (Final) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5 (Tikanga)
  • i686 i386 GNU/Linux with CentOS release 5.4 (Final)
  • x86_64 GNU/Linux with Fedora release 12 (Constantine)
• A script to determine the order to build the packages:
  • calc_buildorders.R
• A script to build the packages from a list:
  • generateRpm.py

To be determined

• Update frequency, every day or once a week ?
• Which version do we support ?

 -> I propose the latest one for both Fedora and CentOS.
 -> According if new hardware gets available, maybe Fedora n-1 and/or CentOS n-1

Wiki TODO

Minor tasks

• DONE: Get some content on the wiki to start the ball rolling.
• Put links on all the appropriate projectsat mentioned on the main page.
• Provide more details for the list of BioRPM / BioLinux projects.
• Add more information about R2Spec and other resources such as mailing lists

Major tasks

• Write up some of the concrete project proposals

Ongoing tasks

• Do more!