Hi Marco, Marco Clocchiatti <[email protected]> writes:
> wonderfull. > > your eclass is surely better than mine, but I found a little difference. > your ebuilds for R packages need a specific SRC_URI, while mine eclass > finds automatically the current version of the package by itself. It looks like your eclass is downloading from CRAN in Rutils_src_compile(). For the sake of reproducible builds, ebuilds should use local files during the build: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/index.html Is it possible to instruct R install.package() to "fetch only", or "print download URL"? > I don't know if this is a good or a bad feature, but I think may it be > usefull to implement a -9999.ebuild version of the package. The -9999.ebuild has a special meaning of 'live' ebuild that the source is a version-controlled repository. The devmanual discuss the cvs case: https://devmanual.gentoo.org/ebuild-writing/functions/src_unpack/cvs-sources/index.html#disadvantages-of-cvs-sources CRAN is not a version-controlled repository. It's packages are versioned and released. Therefore I prefer creating versioned ebuilds to the live ones. Thanks for your eclass, it is a very neat write-up. Yours, Benda
