Recently it seems to have become much more common for the PACKAGES* metadata to get out of sync with the actual availability of macOS binaries. e.g. the PACKAGES* metadata will show there is a binary available, but it is not yet fully synced and users get download failures. We had 4 issues (and one email) opened in various repositories related to this (about the withr packages) yesterday.
https://github.com/r-lib/pak/issues/262 https://github.com/r-lib/actions/issues/141#issuecomment-769205048 https://github.com/r-lib/actions/issues/235 https://github.com/r-lib/withr/issues/160#issuecomment-769261447 This is also not an isolated incident with one package, the sf package had the same thing happen, and I would not be surprised if there were more I am aware of. https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/issues/1586 This seems to happen sporadically, but recently has been occurring much more frequently. It also seems to only be a problem for the macOS binaries, Windows binaries don't seem to have this issue. Either because they are synced differently or because they are built in the same location as the main CRAN mirror. Using `rsync --delay-updates` could possibly help to ensure more atomic mirroring if it is not already being used. I CC'd Kurt on this email as I am not sure he subscribes to R-Sig-Mac, and he may be able to provide insight into this issue. Jim [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac