R devel - Jun 2014 - what is the current correct repos structure for mac osx binaries?

Dear R-developers,

As part of our package building process, we maintain internal CRAN-like 
repositories of our packages.  This has worked pretty well, but we are 
running into issues with R 3.1 and OSX mavericks.

Specifically, machines with osx mavericks seem to, by default, expect 
packages to be located under a 'mavericks' sub-directory, but this is 
not the location reported when generating a mac.binary appropriate 
contrib url.

 >contrib.url('foo')
[1] "foo/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/"


If I ask where the mac binaries are on a linux machine (AND on mac 
mavericks machines) I get

 >contrib.url('foo',type='mac.binary')
[1] "foo/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/"


But the OSX machine gives an error and fails to locate the packages if 
they are located at foo/bin/macosx/contrib/3.1/

So where are the mac binaries supposed to located in a CRAN-like 
repository so that they can be installed on a mac with the default 
install command?  And is there a way for a non-mac machine (i.e. our 
linux deploy server) to determine that directory other than 
contrib.url(,type='mac.binary) ?

thanks for your help,
  -skye

On Jun 13, 2014, at 5:41 PM, Skye Bender-deMoll <skyebend at skyeome.net>
wrote:
> Dear R-developers,
> 
> As part of our package building process, we maintain internal CRAN-like
repositories of our packages.  This has worked pretty well, but we are running
into issues with R 3.1 and OSX mavericks.
> 
> Specifically, machines with osx mavericks seem to, by default, expect
packages to be located under a 'mavericks' sub-directory, but this is
not the location reported when generating a mac.binary appropriate contrib url.
> 
> >contrib.url('foo')
> [1] "foo/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/"
> 
> 
> If I ask where the mac binaries are on a linux machine (AND on mac
mavericks machines) I get
> 
> >contrib.url('foo',type='mac.binary')
> [1] "foo/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1/"
> 
I don't think that is true. On all machines (Linux, OS X, ...) I get
> contrib.url('foo', type='mac.binary')
[1] "foo/bin/macosx/contrib/3.1"


Note that the type for the mavericks build is "mac.binary.mavericks",
so on all machines you also get
> contrib.url('foo',type='mac.binary.mavericks')
[1] "foo/bin/macosx/mavericks/contrib/3.1"

The only difference are the defaults for pkgType - they differ by the build, but
the repo structure is fixed and consistent across all platforms.

Cheers,
Simon

> 
> But the OSX machine gives an error and fails to locate the packages if they
are located at foo/bin/macosx/contrib/3.1/
> 
> So where are the mac binaries supposed to located in a CRAN-like repository
so that they can be installed on a mac with the default install command?  And is
there a way for a non-mac machine (i.e. our linux deploy server) to determine
that directory other than contrib.url(,type='mac.binary) ?
> 
> thanks for your help,
> -skye
> 
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