Hi Allen,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I actually encountered this point of yours and that is why I found this mailing list.

On your solution, I did try putting 'export _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ = false; R CMD check' in the spec file. But now, it fails again again doing a test that requires foreach while building iterator.

Thanks again. "Sent via BlackBerry from Smart"

-----Original Message----- From: "Allen S. Rout" asr@ufl.edu Sender: r-devel-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 09:09:24 To: r-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: r-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: [Fedora-r-devel-list] Building RPMs for Fedora with circular "suggest" dependencies

On 06/15/2012 08:27 AM, William Emmanuel S. Yu wrote:

Hello,

I am new to this list and in the process of building some RPMs for R packages. I have been rolling my own packages for a few years now and post them for public use. I am a heavy user of R2spec with spec file tweaks of course. Thanks for the author for making life easier.

Every so often, I encounter the circular dependency issue with "suggest". For example, I am building R-reshape that depends on a bunch of packages including R-iterator and R-foreach. Unfortunately, R-iterator and R-foreach both suggest each other.

I used to be able to force ignoring suggests but this causes problems with check and test and skipping check and test isn't exactly what I want to do either.

I would like to know what the "proper" way of building RPMs for the both of these R packages.

Hah.

From the perspective of a scientist or engineer, the 'proper' solution would be to have a dependency _TREE_ instead of a dependency plate-of-pasta.

In short, your problem looks insane because the underlying reality is insane.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/21496

includes my statement of the problem, ca. 2009.

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lang.r.devel/21597

for a stab at a solution. It's not elegant, but I think it'd work.

I've frankly been out of the loop on where Pierre-Yves is going on this issue for some time. I'm sure he's got some comments.

- Allen S. Rout _______________________________________________ r-devel mailing list r-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/r-devel

Well. I just built the RPMs to ignore the depedencies and installed them manually (force). Not elegant but it works and still uses RPM. "Sent on the move."

-----Original Message----- From: José Matos jamatos@fc.up.pt Sender: r-devel-bounces@lists.fedoraproject.org Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:30:36 To: r-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Reply-To: r-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: [Fedora-r-devel-list] Building RPMs for Fedora with circular "suggest" dependencies

On 06/15/2012 02:25 PM, William Emmanuel S. Yu wrote:

Hi Allen,

Thanks for the quick reply.

I actually encountered this point of yours and that is why I found this mailing list.

On your solution, I did try putting 'export _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ = false; R CMD check' in the spec file. But now, it fails again again doing a test that requires foreach while building iterator.

Thanks again. "Sent via BlackBerry from Smart"

Hi, have you been able to proceed here?

I suppose that the only real option is to proceed in several steps in a kind of bootstrapping setup, first ignoring the suggests and the checks and on a second round adding those back. Probably this is easier said then done. :-)

Regards,