[R] building the development version

[Douglas Bates]

Peter Dalgaard <p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk> writes:

> Deborah Swayne <dfs at research.att.com> writes:
> 
> > Peter Dalgaard writes:
> >  > 
> >  > OK, that I can confirm. They do turn up on a checkout without the -P
> >  > option, but disappear after "cvs up -Pd". Tony, Debbie, did you
> >  > perhaps configure before attempting to prune the empty dirs? Could you
> >  > try 
> >  > 
> >  > cvs -d ...blabla... co -P R
> > 
> > I've use rsync; I don't know if that makes any difference:
> >    rsync -rC rsync.r-project.org::r-devel R
> 
> Hmm. It might mean that the rsync tree is built without the -P. If so,
> we should probably fix it.

I think it is rather that Deborah's rsync call did not include a
--delete option.  The crontab entries that update the rsync trees all
use -Pd (which I manage to remember because of your login).

11  *  * * *    (cd /spare1/R-src/r-patched; cvs -Q up -Pd -r R-1-8-patches; cd ../r-devel; cvs -Q up -Pd)

22 02 * * *     (cd /spare1/ggobi-src/RSggobi; cvs -Q up -Pd; cd ../ggobi; cvs -Q up -Pd)

22 05 * * *     (cd /spare1/R-project-web; cvs -Q up -Pd)

19 01 * * *     (cd /spare1/Bioconductor-devel/madman; cvs -Q up -Pd)