R-hdf5

[Aaron Knister]

I didn't realize there was a macro- I was doing an rpm -q --scripts on
some of the other pkgs which showed the full path of the
make-search-index script. Should I still file a bug report in
bugzilla?

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Orion Poplawski <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
> On 10/29/2009 12:46 PM, 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.
>
> Note that R modules use rpm macros for the post scripts that are resolved at
> rpm build time:
>
> %post
> %{_R_make_search_index}
>
> Looks like this changed at some point.  May just be time to rebuild some of
> the older R modules in EPEL.  I'll take a look.
>
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