I have fixed it (it only needs a slight modification of the regex) and responded, unfortunately my posts get blocked at ETH :( The nightlies should have the new post flight script so please test.
Cheers, Simon > On May 9, 2021, at 21:11, peter dalgaard <pda...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Eek, yes, that needs fixing. And of course only newcomers get hit because > others will have the symlinks in place already. > > I believe that instead of the grep '^1[5-9]' business you need something like > > IFS=. read major minor pl << EOF > `uname -r` > EOF > > and then a numeric check on $major. > > -pd > >> On 9 May 2021, at 01:15 , Yuri Broze <yuribr...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> >> Apologies if this bug has already been noticed, but I wanted to share just >> in case it hasn't yet, and this was the best place I found. >> >> The current CRAN-hosted MacOS installation package fails to correctly >> create symbolic links to /usr/local/bin for machines with `uname -r` >> release version of 20 or above. The faulty logic is in >> R/R-fw.pkg/Scripts/postflight; lines 6-13: >> >> if uname -r | grep '^1[5-9]' >/dev/null; then >> ## 15.0 and higher don't allow messing with /usr/bin >> ## so use /usr/local/bin instead >> if [ ! -e /usr/local/bin ]; then >> mkdir -p /usr/local/bin >> fi >> cd /usr/local/bin >> fi >> >> This seems to have resulted in some commotion on Stack Exchange and other >> places around an inability to access `R` or `Rscript` from the commandline, >> along with the usual hacky workarounds. >> >> Hope this is helpful to bring to your attention! >> >> Best, >> Yuri >> >> Yuri Broze >> 314.910.3152 >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac > > -- > Peter Dalgaard, Professor, > Center for Statistics, Copenhagen Business School > Solbjerg Plads 3, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark > Phone: (+45)38153501 > Office: A 4.23 > Email: pd....@cbs.dk Priv: pda...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > R-SIG-Mac mailing list > R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
