best way to locally capture and restore packages about gran

[gmbecker]

@benmarwick Apologies for not responding sooner. switchr and GRANBase are not focused on capturing package sources locally for installation later. In fact, the manifest design is specifically intended to not require that (though I admit it does require internet access, which other solutions such as packrat do not).

The model here is to publish a manifest, e.g. as a gist, and then you or others install from that manifest as necessary.

That said, what you want should be possible with makeRepo from the API_refactor branch in this repository (which I hope to merge as a major update to master sometime this week), via the code:

man = libManifest() # get our manifest of installed pkgs
param = RepoBuildParam(basedir = <dir>, install_test = FALSE, check_test = FALSE)
repo = GRANRepository(manifest = man, param = param)
makeRepo(repo)

That currently won't work due to a bug writing this up discovered, but I will track that down and fix that shortly. Once it works, that will create a fully local package repository containing the contents of the manifest.

Thanks for your interest, and I will keep you abreast of bug squashing, etc via comments here.

[benmarwick]

Thanks very much for looking over my example and the further explanation, that's very helpful. I look forward to testing the makeRepo function when it gets to the master branch.

[gmbecker]

@benmarwick Apologies for the delay. The branch (API_refactor) that I
referred to in my previous comments has just been merged into master. Feel
free try the solution/code I suggested before at your convenience and let
me know if anything doesn't work.

Thanks,
~G

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 12:35 PM, Ben Marwick [email protected]
wrote:

Thanks very much for looking over my example and the further explanation,
that's very helpful. I look forward to testing the makeRepo function when
it gets to the master branch.

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