#18820: Upgrade R to 3.2.1
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Reporter: charpent | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-6.8
Component: packages: | Resolution:
standard | Merged in:
Keywords: r-project | Reviewers:
Authors: Emmanuel | Work issues:
Charpentier | Commit:
Report Upstream: N/A | 9a9c4ccd78dda128da41df76089fb87462a870a4
Branch: | Stopgaps:
u/charpent/upgrade_r_to_3_2_1 |
Dependencies: |
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Comment (by charpent):
Replying to [comment:7 ncohen]:
> Hellooooooo,
>
> > You advised (see #16711 about upgrade to 3.1.1) adding this file to
document the renaming of the tarball (from R-x-y-z.tar.gz to
r-x-y-z.tar.gz), needed by the then-current convention of all-lowercase
tarball names.
>
> A `spkg-src` file to document a renaming? Why? `O_o`
>
> > Do you advise keeping a no-op {{{spkg-src}}} ?
>
> No. I advise to keep a file that re-builds the archive from network
ressources only.
Please don't do that (unless you have a solid reason to do so) : some
firewall setup do exceedingly annoying thing to network downloads. The
recent "enhancement" to downloads that tries to select the closest/fastest
mirror left me with an unupdateable tree (and, yes, this machines lives
behind a "corporate-style" fascist firewall, run by incompetents...). I
didn't yet had time to figure out how to unwedge it in order to test your
(and vbraun's) solution)....
> Then it becomes easier to check that the archive's content is what it
should be. I do not see anything wrong with a script that downloads a
distant file (whose url is generated from the locally stored version
number), and does nothing else to it if there is nothing else to do.
>
> Actually, I will try to solve this once and for all. I'll write some
'sage --sanity-check-package whatever' that uses whatever's spkg-src
script (if any), and checks whether the content of the file in `upstream/`
matches it.
>
> This way, checking that the archive is legit will only be a call to
'sanity-check'. In this setting, your spkg-src, even though it just
downloads something, will be useful.
Again, ponder what you're planning. Im currently in a hell paved of yur
good intentins.
Whatever you decide to do, could you please open a SEPARATE ticket,
instead of hijacking this innocent R upgrade YET AGAIN (that would be the
fourth time...) ? Thanks in advance !
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/ticket/18820#comment:8>
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