On Tue, 2005-10-11 at 13:11 +0100, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, [UTF-8] José Matos wrote:
>
> > Hello, I maintain some packages in Fedora Extras for R related
> > modules.
> > Until R 2.2.0 I used for post processing (both after installing
> > andremoving the package) the following lines:
> > %{_bindir}/R CMD perl %{_libdir}/R/share/perl/build-help.pl --htmllistscat
> > %{_libdir}/R/library/*/CONTENTS > %{_libdir}/R/doc/html/search/index.txt
> > Typically %{_bindir} is /usr/bin and %{_libdir} is /usr/lib
> > or/usr/lib64
> > The purpose of those lines is to enable the access to the
> > moduledocumentation from R help. The first refers to html and the second to
> > thetext help variant.
> > With R 2.2.0 build-help.pl no longer has the --htmllists option.
> > Isthere any easy replacement, or is there any other method to achieve the
> > sameresults?
>
> It is no longer needed: the information is now built by R at runtime.
>
> > FWIW, I have searched trough the release notes as well as through
> > thedocumentation for sys admins and for package developers without
> > anysuccess.
>
> For an outsider it might not be obvious that the NEWS entry
>
> o R_HOME/doc/html/packages.html is now remade by R not Perl code.
> This may result in small changes in layout and a change in
> encoding (to UTF-8 where supported).
>
> refers to this. (Note that build-help.pl --htmllists was never documented
> as part of R's API.)
>
> I checked Martyn Plummer's R.spec on CRAN, but that is out-of-date.
> Please look at the R.spec in his current SRPM, which works for me.
Sorry about that. I had forgotten that I put a lone spec file in there.
I have removed it, since it seems likely that I will do the same thing
in the future.
The perl hack used to be required because rpmbuild installs R in a build
root which is different from the final installation directory. The
reason you don't see an error message from the post install script is
because it is redirected to /dev/null. I'll fix this in the next
version.
Martyn
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