R-hdf5

[Ray Van Dolson]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 02:46:55PM -0400, Aaron Knister wrote:
> I just installed R-hdf5 and received this error message from the postscript:
> 
> /home/aaronk/rpmbuild/tmp/rpm-tmp.80148: line 1:
> /usr/lib64/R/doc/html/search/index.txt: No such file or directory
> error: %post(R-hdf5-1.6.6-1.el5.x86_64) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> 
> 
>  I also can't uninstall the rpm without using the --noscripts option
> because of the samepostscript error. The postscripts are listed below:
> 
> [root at n1 ~]# rpm -q --scripts R-hdf5
> postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> cat /usr/lib64/R/library/*/CONTENTS > /usr/lib64/R/doc/html/search/index.txt
> postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
> cat /usr/lib64/R/library/*/CONTENTS > /usr/lib64/R/doc/html/search/index.txt
> 
> It appears that /usr/lib64/R/doc doesn't exist- hence the errors.
> 
> After looking at a few other R "plugins" I saw that they use
> /usr/lib/rpm/R-make-search-index.sh in the post scripts which seems to
> perform the same function as the current postscripts in R-hdf5 but
> among other things, uses existing paths.
> 
> I've attached a patch for the spec file for R-hdf5 that uses
> /usr/lib/rpm/R-make-search-index.sh instead of what it's currently
> doing that's causing errors. I also added a require for R-core, since
> /usr/lib/rpm/R-make-search-index.sh is provided by R-core.
> 
> If it's deemed acceptable would it possible to get this patch
> incorporated and get a new build pushed out?
> 
> Thanks!

Nice work Aaron.  Do you have an account on bugzilla.redhat.com?  If
so, that would be the appropriate place to file this request (against
Fedora and EPEL).

Hopefully the owner will see your message here though as well.

Ray