[Rd] sources of 2.4.0 patched

[Martin Maechler]

>>>>> "Dirk" == Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
>>>>>     on Sat, 28 Oct 2006 08:30:38 -0500 writes:

    Dirk> On 28 October 2006 at 00:18, Peter Dalgaard wrote: |
    Dirk> apjaworski at mmm.com writes: | > I get the tarballs form
    Dirk> ftp://ftp.stat.math.ethz.ch/Software/R and I | >
    Dirk> noticed that the only R-patched there is dated
    Dirk> 2006-10-03, while R-devel is | > up to 2006-10-25.
    Dirk> Did, by any chance, a depository for the R-patched | >
    Dirk> tarballs move someplace else, or is the 2006-10-03
    Dirk> version the latest one.  | | To my knowledge,
    Dirk> neither. Something has gone wrong. The build date on |
    Dirk> the file is Oct 27... I suspect that the svn update is
    Dirk> somehow failing | on the machine that does the builds
    Dirk> (i.e. it just keeps on building | from the 2006-10-03
    Dirk> checkout).

    Dirk> That seems to be the case again this morning.

but no longer now.
[A  "svn cleanup"  was needed.
 I've amended the cron-job script to do an "svn cleanup" now 
 always before "svn update".  This of course is a waste of time in
 99.9% of cases; but it's just a CPU's time, not a person's ....]

Usually such problems would be solved more quickly if someone
e-mailed me directly...

Martin Maechler, ETH Zurich