Confusion around the Broadsea-Hades container repo

[ftrotter]

Note: I am a beginner OHDSI user.. so it is likely that I may not understand important architecture issues...

However, the issue that I am concerned about is the fact that the Broadsea repo does not refer directly to Hades.

Instead, it refers to an intermediate repository, Broadsea-Hades.

It appears that this is the place where the static dependency on R 4.2.1 is maintained. This is not the case with the reference to Atlas etc. The seem to refer directly from Broadsea to the components directly.

After hacking here at the OHDSI conference, our best hypothesis is that this is the manner in which the specific R version is being enforced. However, it is not clear to us why the HADES repo cannot be used directly for these components.

We assume that this problem could be solved by:

• Directly linking from the BroadSea repo to the HADES repo as a dependancy.
• Documenting in the Broadsea-Hades repo the manner in which the middle repository is being generated and its reasons for being.

We had ambitions to contribute more documentation on how to get containers working with HADES and then possibly instructions for getting things going on Linux. However, without understanding the reasoning for the middle-repo between the two projects we are hesitant to write something presumptive.

-ft