Re: Updating to latest Bioconductor release

[zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com>]

Hi again, :-)

On Mon, 16 Nov 2020 at 13:38, Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> wrote:

> Well, I see we're getting R packages that fail to build because the
> source cannot be downloaded (anymore), due to the outdated
> Bioconductor version

Do you mean related to #39885?

   <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39885>
   

> version.  So if we can do an upgrade to 3.12 soon, and add the
> 'workflow' type later, that'd be my preferred route.
>
> So to achieve that, I think we need to:
> 1. Update the Bioconductor version to 3.12
> 2. Update/build the Bioconductor packages that are already in Guix.
> 3. --> When all build failures have been resolved, push to master?

Ok.

> 4. Add the bits for 'workflow' packages.
> 5. Add workflow packages / adjust the ones we have (do we have any?)
> and build/test them.

I do not think we have any.  But I have not checked everything neither. :-)

   <https://bioconductor.org/packages/3.11/workflows/>


All the best,
simon