[CentOS] creating RPMs from CRAN tarballs

[Bowie Bailey]

On 6/5/2015 3:09 AM, Peter wrote:
> On 06/04/2015 07:49 AM, Tony Schreiner wrote:
>> I run R2spec -s tarball  to create a spec file, and most of the time it
>> works ok, but sometimes (RPostgresSQL, Rcpp for example) the package has
>> test or example programs that  start with
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/r
>>
>> with lower case r, and the resulting package then winds up with a
>> dependency on /usr/bin/r, which can't be resolved.
>>
>> So far I have solved it by editing all the files and replacing with
>> /usr/bin/R, recreating the tarball and going through the process again, but
>> I have to believe there is an easier way.
> Kind of.  This is an obvious error in the packaged scripts in the
> tarballs.  I generally don't recommend modifying the original tarball as
> I like it to be a true representation of the tarball source that you get
> from upstream.  What I do instead is patch it in the spec file.
>
> In this case it would probably be easier to do one line of perl or awk
> that patches the shebang line in all the scripts at build time than it
> would be to generate individual patch files for each source tarball.
> You would add this to the %prep stage of the spec files, something like
> this after the initial %setup macro:
>
> perl -pi -e 's:^#!/usr/bin/r:#!/usr/bin/R: unless $i++'
> path/to/R/scripts/*.R

I assume the "unless $i++" is supposed to limit the replace operation to 
only the first line each file.  Unfortunately, since it is a global 
variable, it is actually limiting it to only the first line of the first 
file.  I'm not sure how you would fix this using the -p option.  You 
would probably have to write out the loop manually in order to localize 
the variable properly.

-- 
Bowie