R SIG Fedora - Nov 2010 - R 2.12.0 in Fedora Updates Testing

R 2.12.0 is built now for Fedora and EPEL. It is in "updates-testing"
(or it will be within the next 24 hours).

I did not do this build for Fedora 12, as that release will be
End-Of-Life in a month.

In accordance with the new policies on Fedora Updates, these new
packages will not be pushed as official updates until they either
receive positive testing from users, or sit in updates-testing for two
weeks.

You can help us test these packages, and move them forward. Here's how:

1. Go to the Fedora Updates web application (its real name is
"Bodhi"):
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/

Once you're there, click the login blue box at the top left, and login
with your Fedora Account. If you don't have a Fedora Account, you can
skip this step.

2. Click on the link for the Fedora R test update that matches your release:

Fedora 13:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpy-2.0.8-5.fc13,R-2.12.0-1.fc13

Fedora 14:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rpy-2.1.7-1.fc14,R-2.12.0-1.fc14

EPEL-4 (RHEL-4):
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/R-2.12.0-1.el4.1

EPEL-5 (RHEL-5):
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/R-2.12.0-1.el5

3. Now, on your Fedora (or RHEL) system, run this command (as root, or
with root privs) to install the test update:

yum --enablerepo=updates-testing update R

That should update R to the test update (if you don't want the full R
suite, you can replace "R" in that string with "R-core").

4. Test it! Make sure it does all the things you would expect it to.

5. Go back to the web page for the R update (step 2), and at
the bottom, click "Add a comment >>"

(If you didn't login, it will ask you for an email address and make you
complete a captcha to make sure you are a unique individual.)

In that text box which opens up, write a little bit about the testing
you did and if it works okay for you or not. Then (this is the important
part), click the "Works for me" or "Does not work" radio
button below
it, and click the Add Comment button.

6. That's it! If it worked, you've given that update a +1 karma vote.
(If it didn't work, you've given it a -1 karma vote). Now, if three
people give a +1, and the package update gets to +3, the Fedora Update
system will automatically move the update from testing to a real update,
and everyone will get it.

Thanks in advance,

~spot, Fedora/EPEL R maintainer

On 11/02/2010 09:49 PM, Tom "spot" Callaway
wrote:
> R 2.12.0 is built now for Fedora and EPEL. It is in
"updates-testing"
> (or it will be within the next 24 hours).
For rather large values of 24, it seems. Anyways, it is there now,
however....

> 4. Test it! Make sure it does all the things you would expect it to.
> 
> 5. Go back to the web page for the R update (step 2), and at
> the bottom, click "Add a comment >>"
> 
> (If you didn't login, it will ask you for an email address and make you
> complete a captcha to make sure you are a unique individual.)
> 
> In that text box which opens up, write a little bit about the testing
> you did and if it works okay for you or not. Then (this is the important
> part), click the "Works for me" or "Does not work"
radio button below
> it, and click the Add Comment button.
> 
> 6. That's it! If it worked, you've given that update a +1 karma
vote.
> (If it didn't work, you've given it a -1 karma vote). Now, if three
> people give a +1, and the package update gets to +3, the Fedora Update
> system will automatically move the update from testing to a real update,
> and everyone will get it.
...I tried this twice and it has zero effect on the karma!


-- 
Peter Dalgaard
Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School
Phone: (+45)38153501
Email: pd.mes at cbs.dk  Priv: PDalgd at gmail.com

On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 08:55:04 +0100 Peter Dalgaard wrote:

PD> ...I tried this twice and it has zero effect on the karma!

I suppose you did this anonymously and not with a fedora account. I
could add karma to the F14 version when I logged in. This is probably
a security measure.

(more critical updates even require "proventesters")

Regards
Stefan

On 11/06/2010 08:47 AM, Stefan Grosse wrote:
> On Sat, 06 Nov 2010 08:55:04 +0100 Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> 
> PD> ...I tried this twice and it has zero effect on the karma!
> 
> I suppose you did this anonymously and not with a fedora account. I
> could add karma to the F14 version when I logged in. This is probably
> a security measure.
This is correct. Anonymous karm is useful, but you need to be logged in
for it to count towards the update now.

~spot