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Build directory path saved in Meta/hsearch.rds

José Abílio Matos 
Hi,
  in Fedora Extras we build R packages to a temporary directory. The
relevant section in
the spec file is this:

%build
cd ..; R CMD INSTALL %{packname} -l %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/R/library

It works. :-)

We noticed one problem though (I will assume working on ix86 here) the
temporary build path is saved in
/usr/lib/R/library/*/Meta/hsearch.rds, i.e. for each package.

To see this is enough to run strings over these file.

Is this a security concern? Does R uses this path in any way?

In case the answer is yes, it is safe to run sed over this file and do
a textual replacement?

Thanks and best regards,
--
Jos? Matos

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José Abílio Matos Build directory path saved in Meta/hsearch.rds Mar 3 José Abílio Matos Build directory path saved in Meta/hsearch.rds Mar 3 Dirk Eddelbuettel Build directory path saved in Meta/hsearch.rds Mar 3 Brian Ripley Build directory path saved in Meta/hsearch.rds Mar 4 Brian Ripley Build directory path saved in Meta/hsearch.rds Mar 4 José Abílio Matos Build directory path saved in Meta/hsearch.rds Mar 8