Technote about making a shapshot of a package repository

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Open jeroen opened 2 years ago

jeroen commented 2 years ago

Maybe also add an action or r package.

maelle commented 2 years ago

Notes from a convo elsewhere

Snapshot in the sense of backup of actual files, not of metadata only.

"Frozen mirror".

The files = the package files and PACKAGES that indexes them all. Example: https://maelle.r-universe.dev/src/contrib/PACKAGES Package files https://maelle.r-universe.dev/ui#package:rodev (so different ones for different OS / R versions, would the backup save all of them :thinking: this could be a parameter). download.packages()

Potentially put the archive on gh-pages

maelle commented 2 years ago

It sounds similar to @milesmcbain's https://github.com/MilesMcBain/capsule (great name btw! the name helped me remember it exists)

maelle commented 2 years ago

actually not similar, more "related" as what @jeroen describes is a way to get the local frozen repo for capsule or something else.

MilesMcBain commented 2 years ago

Whatever it is I await the tech note with interest!

maelle commented 2 years ago