R help - Feb 2001 - Re: failed rpm installation of R 1.2-1 (fwd)

On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> Dear Albrecht,
> 
> Just sent the following message out to r-help. Have you any idea what this
> problem could be?
> 
>                          Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 00:04:35 -0500 (EST)
> From: Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu>
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: failed rpm installation of R 1.2-1
> 
> Dear People,
> 
> Just tried to compile an rpm for R 1.2-1 (using Albrecht Gebhardt's
spec
> file). The compile went successfully and produced a binary rpm, but when I
> tried to install it, I got an error
> 
> error: failed dependencies:
>         BEGIN is needed by R-base-1.2.1-1
> 
> I see this was also listed in the Requires list at the end of the rpm
> compilation: 
> 
> Requires: /bin/sh /usr/bin/perl BEGIN ...
> 
> Of course I could force installation of the package, but I would like to
> know what I am doing first. Albrecht does not say anything about BEGIN in
> his spec file, so this must be somethin internal to R. Does anyone have
> any idea what? I have no idea.
>
I guess, there is some executable file (a snippet of some script with mode
755 or similar) which starts with a line "BEGIN". ....

Well, I just found it, it is an awk script:
find -type f -exec grep -l BEGIN {} \;
...
./bin/maketitle.awk

Clearly it doesn't need the executable bits so simply add

chmod 644 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/R/bin/maketitle.awk

to the end of the %install section of my spec file.


Albrecht

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On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Albrecht Gebhardt wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Feb 2001, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> > error: failed dependencies:
> >         BEGIN is needed by R-base-1.2.1-1
[snip]
> I guess, there is some executable file (a snippet of some script with mode
> 755 or similar) which starts with a line "BEGIN". ....
> 
> Well, I just found it, it is an awk script:
> find -type f -exec grep -l BEGIN {} \;
> ...
> ./bin/maketitle.awk
> 
> Clearly it doesn't need the executable bits so simply add
> 
> chmod 644 $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{prefix}/R/bin/maketitle.awk
> 
> to the end of the %install section of my spec file.
Actually, I think this should be
$RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{prefix}/lib/R/bin/maketitle.awk

With this change, the rpm installs successfully. Thanks a lot, Albrecht!
By the way, your rpm spec file is one of the best-written I have seen.
Just one more thing: could you briefly explain to me for future reference
(off-list) why there was a problem, and the above fixed things?

                                Sincerely, Faheem Mitha.

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