I am currently (still) running Fedora 17 --- having not managed to screw
my courage to the sticking place and upgrade.
Even though we are now up to Fedora 20, I think. The traffic on the
Fedora mailing list on the upgrading issue is a bit terrifying.
I would just like to confirm that:
It is ***NOT*** possible to download a binary of R for Fedora 17.
Is this correct?
My efforts to obtain a binary using yum install resulted in a binary for
version 2.15.2. (Whereas of course the source version available from
CRAN is 3.0.1.
I just wanted to check that I am not doing something stupid (like maybe
using an incorrect repository).
I presume that the latest version of R is available as a binary only for
the last version (or last few versions) of Fedora.
Can anyone confirm my presumption?
No biggie. I can build from source, and indeed have done so. But
downloading a binary is quicker and I'd just like to get straight what
the true state of play is.
cheers,
Rolf Turner
On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Rolf Turner <rolf.turner@xtra.co.nz> wrote:> > > I am currently (still) running Fedora 17 --- having not managed to screw > my courage to the sticking place and upgrade. > Even though we are now up to Fedora 20, I think. The traffic on the Fedora > mailing list on the upgrading issue is a bit terrifying. > > I would just like to confirm that: > > It is ***NOT*** possible to download a binary of R for Fedora 17. >Is this correct?> > My efforts to obtain a binary using yum install resulted in a binary for > version 2.15.2. (Whereas of course the source version available from CRAN > is 3.0.1. > > I just wanted to check that I am not doing something stupid (like maybe > using an incorrect repository). > > I presume that the latest version of R is available as a binary only for > the last version (or last few versions) of Fedora. > > Can anyone confirm my presumption? > > No biggie. I can build from source, and indeed have done so. But > downloading a binary is quicker and I'd just like to get straight what the > true state of play is. > > cheers, > > Rolf Turner > > Hello Rolf,this seems to be the case, that f17 is not updated to 3.0.1, but all other branches are. So you just need to upgrade to f18, which is not the latest fedora release. The latest stable release is f19, but with the upgrade to f18 you would buy yourself time until one month after the release of fedora 20. For a quick overview: https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/R-core/overview/ I hope this helps and explains the issue. Johannes> ______________________________**_________________ > R-SIG-Fedora mailing list > R-SIG-Fedora@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/**listinfo/r-sig-fedora<https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-fedora> >[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
On Aug 2, 2013, at 5:01 AM, Rolf Turner <rolf.turner at xtra.co.nz> wrote:> > > I am currently (still) running Fedora 17 --- having not managed to screw my courage to the sticking place and upgrade. > Even though we are now up to Fedora 20, I think. The traffic on the Fedora mailing list on the upgrading issue is a bit terrifying. > > I would just like to confirm that: > > It is ***NOT*** possible to download a binary of R for Fedora 17. > > Is this correct? > > My efforts to obtain a binary using yum install resulted in a binary for version 2.15.2. (Whereas of course the source version available from CRAN is 3.0.1. > > I just wanted to check that I am not doing something stupid (like maybe using an incorrect repository). > > I presume that the latest version of R is available as a binary only for the last version (or last few versions) of Fedora. > > Can anyone confirm my presumption? > > No biggie. I can build from source, and indeed have done so. But downloading a binary is quicker and I'd just like to get straight what the true state of play is. > > cheers, > > Rolf TurnerHi Rolf, Fedora 19, just released last month, is the current stable version. 20 is not scheduled for release until mid-November at the earliest. The problem is that Fedora 17 will be EOL'd "shortly", since the Fedora life cycle is to maintain a given version until one month after the +2 version release, which for 17 is 19. Each version has a lifecycle of roughly 13 months, since new releases comes out roughly every 6 months. As a result, no further updates for R, much less anything else (eg. bug fixes, kernel updates, security updates, etc.), for 17 should be expected at this point. 18 will similarly go EOL in December if 20 is released in November. R 3.0.1 is available via the Fedora repos for 18 and 19. So you should really give strong consideration for updating your Fedora version, whether that be 'in place' or via a clean install. I used to do the latter, making sure that my /home was a separate partition, so that I could cleanly install a new version of the OS without losing my user folder tree. I have not used Fedora in several years now, so have not followed the current state of the upgrade process, other than having a general awareness of 'fedup', which is the new upgrade tool and I believe started with 17. Regards, Marc Schwartz
On 08/02/2013 06:01 AM, Rolf Turner wrote:> > > I am currently (still) running Fedora 17 --- having not managed to screw > my courage to the sticking place and upgrade. > Even though we are now up to Fedora 20, I think. The traffic on the > Fedora mailing list on the upgrading issue is a bit terrifying. > > I would just like to confirm that: > > It is ***NOT*** possible to download a binary of R for Fedora 17. > > Is this correct? > > My efforts to obtain a binary using yum install resulted in a binary for > version 2.15.2. (Whereas of course the source version available from > CRAN is 3.0.1. > > I just wanted to check that I am not doing something stupid (like maybe > using an incorrect repository).Nope, this is right. F17 just end-of-lifed, so I never did a 3.0.1 build for it (because it would also mean I had to rebuild every other R package in the Fedora 17 tree). Apologies for the inconvenience, ~tom =Fedora Project