Hi All, I'm in the process of building an rpm for rhel5 (client currently). This has required modification of the spec file. When I've completed the process, I'd like to submit the changes to save others doing the same work. Is this the appropriate place to submit a patch with those changes? Thanks -Ben -- Ben Walton Systems Programmer Office of Planning & IT Faculty of Arts & Science University of Toronto Cell: 416.407.5610 GPG Key Id: 8E89F6D2; Keyserver: pgp.mit.edu Contact me to arrange for a CAcert assurance meeting. Please Note: This e-mail is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed. It may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. Any dissemination, disclosure, printing, publishing or use of this email or the information contained herein without written authorization of the sender is strictly prohibited. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete. Thank you. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/attachments/20070417/3761d96f/attachment.bin
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Ben Walton wrote:> Hi All, > > I'm in the process of building an rpm for rhel5 (client currently). > This has required modification of the spec file. When I've completed > the process, I'd like to submit the changes to save others doing the > same work. Is this the appropriate place to submit a patch with those > changes?http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/SRPMS/R.spec names the principal author, Martyn Plummer. Please contact him. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
Ben Walton wrote:> Hi All, > > I'm in the process of building an rpm for rhel5 (client currently). > This has required modification of the spec file. When I've completed > the process, I'd like to submit the changes to save others doing the > same work. Is this the appropriate place to submit a patch with those > changes? >Probably, contacting Martyn Plummer directly is the way to go.> Thanks > -Ben > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >-- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard ?ster Farimagsgade 5, Entr.B c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics PO Box 2099, 1014 Cph. K (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
Ben Walton wrote:> Hi All, > > I'm in the process of building an rpm for rhel5 (client currently). > This has required modification of the spec file. When I've completed > the process, I'd like to submit the changes to save others doing the > same work. Is this the appropriate place to submit a patch with those > changes? > > Thanks > -BenI'll be interested to see it, but I wonder what kind of modification is *required*? I am currently using a spec file modified from the 2.3 era for 2.4 onto fedora 6, and I don't think there is *any* required change to make the old spec file works on fc6. Here are a list of my changes (from a diff I just do): (1) ver 2.3.1<->2.4.1, plus a custom release tag to distinguish from official build (2) a bunch of change to do with LDFLAGS, etc so that I can do 32-bit build on 64-bit platforms. (3) enable memory profiling and strict type check (4) make also the pdf's for the full reference manual and the extension manual. These are all personal preferences; and FWIW, fedora extra also carries R (and I believe RHEL5 can get at fedora extra's via yum), so (1) are you refering to the spec file on cran or the spec file on fedora extra? They are quite different! (2) are you sure your "required" modification not a matter of personal preference as well? HTL