From hb at biostat.ucsf.edu  Sat Feb 19 19:00:29 2011
From: hb at biostat.ucsf.edu (Henrik Bengtsson)
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 10:00:29 -0800
Subject: [Rd] Set up new CRAN mirror;
	but have questions before finalizing.
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On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:43 PM, Friedrich Leisch
<friedrich.leisch at stat.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:00:28 -0600,
>>>>>> Paul Johnson (PJ) wrote:
>
> ?> Hi, everybody
> ?> I have an account on Dreamhost.com and when I renewed it recently,
> ?> their message said my usage of storage and bandwidth had been
> ?> reasonably low. In an idle moment about 3 weeks ago, I followed your
> ?> instructions to set up a CRAN mirror on their server. ?Here it is:
>
> ?> http://www.freefaculty.org/cran
>
> ?> It is not hosted at my University, but it is a working, high
> ?> availability server. ?Is there any reason it could not be listed as a
> ?> CRAN mirror. (Although I really have no idea where these machines
> ?> exist. I'm pretty sure it is in the USA. I'll try to find out).
>
> We would need to know where it is because we lsit mirrors in the US
> sorted by state ...

http://ipinfodb.com/ip_locator.php?ip=www.freefaculty.org

?

/Henrik

>
>
> ?> Maybe you might try it and see? ?It has updated several times, no
> ?> trouble I can see in that.
>
> ?> I have a couple of small details to ask about. ?Maybe this first one
> ?> is a potential ?"bug report" for the CRAN mirror instructions.
>
> ?> 1. Permissions on "src" and "web" folders are 700,
>
> Then you must have made a mistake in setting up the mirror, because on
> the master we have 775 for both directories and all directories within
> these two. We also had never complaints about this before.
>
> ?> and so running "update.packages" or an apt-get update against the
> ?> debian stuff results in permission denied errors. ?I re-set the
> ?> permissions manually, but wonder if I'm actually supposed to mess
> ?> around with your archive. ?After doing that, it works. ?But I
> ?> worry a little bit about what else might not be readable "down
> ?> there" in the hierarchy. And I wonder why any body else's mirror
> ?> works without doing that.
>
> Well, they simply mirrored our permissions ...
>
>
> ?> 2. When I run "apt-get update" against my mirror, i get a lot of
> ?> harassment about the lack of a security key for my repository. ?Should
> ?> I be publishing an R Core team key to fix that, or my own key to do
> ?> what? ?I've never administered an apt repository before. I have
> ?> administered yum repositories and the security there is in the key on
> ?> the individual RPMS, I don't quite understand what the Debian thing is
> ?> asking me to do.
>
> It is quite common then non-official Debian mirrors have no security
> key, I would not worry too much about that.
>
> Best regards,
> Fritz Leisch
>
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[Rd] Set up new CRAN mirror; but have questions before finalizing.
Henrik Bengtsson