"AL" == Alex Lancaster writes:
"TC" == Tom "spot" Callaway writes:
TC> On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 02:56 -0700, Alex Lancaster wrote:
I agree, wait for F-9. Then we can put it through updates-testing, have time to push dependent packages that might need rebuilding, including (but probably not limited to) rpy.
Meanwhile we could push versions for F-7 & F-8 to updates-testing to shake out potential problems. Then push them all to stable after F-9 is released.
TC> Ehhh, i don't want to break the upgrade path. We'll just sit on TC> this until after F-9.
AL> I just noticed that some packages fail to rebuild with R 2.7.0, AL> e.g.
AL> http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=606646
AL> the build.log has the following:
AL> checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files AL> /var/tmp/R-zoo-1.5-3.fc10-root-mockbuild error: Installed (but AL> unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/share/R/library/zoo/NEWS RPM build AL> errors: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: AL> /usr/share/R/library/zoo/NEWS
AL> Does 2.7.0 somehow attempt to compile/provide a NEWS file even if AL> the actual package does not?
Actually looking at it a bit closer it seems that R 2.7.0 is a bit smarter about installing the NEWS file if it's present, see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=445635#c11
for more details. This might affect a few packages that don't explicitly include NEWS in their %files list. If this is so, it would probably be useful if the sample spec files in the R packaging guidelines:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/R
were also updated accordingly, as many people use those as templates to create new R packages.
Alex