From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: Add r-edger. Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 09:33:28 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87lh3r61ab.fsf@gnu.org> <20160523015421.GA22738@jasmine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45190) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b4kMz-00074t-0W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2016 03:33:45 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1b4kMu-0007wc-1x for guix-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 May 2016 03:33:44 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20160523015421.GA22738@jasmine> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Leo Famulari Cc: guix-devel Leo Famulari writes: > On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 09:36:28AM +0200, Roel Janssen wrote: >> * gnu/packages/bioinformatics.scm (r-edger): New variable. > > I tried to build this (and limma), but the source tarball is no longer > available. I couldn't find any archived releases on the bioconductor > site. Yes, this is a very annoying problem with Bioconductor. I=E2=80=99m not = sure but I think this has been raised on the Bioconductor mailing lists some months ago. There is no archive at the moment. All previous releases might still be available via SVN, though, so maybe we can find a way to generalise this and add an SVN origin as a fallback. Maybe we should not use the tarballs at all and convert all of the Bioconductor packages to use SVN instead? ~~ Ricardo