Message-ID: <x27jp4h4hz.fsf@biostat.ku.dk>
Date: 2004-11-02T12:31:36Z
From: Peter Dalgaard
Subject: case-insensitive ZIP
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.041102100326.Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk>
(Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@nessie.mcc.ac.uk> writes:
> On 02-Nov-04 Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
> > [...]
> > [Analogously, R CMD INSTALL will not install .tgz files on Unix,
> > even though some people distribute them: they are (equally) not
> > a supported format.]
>
> Maybe I'm out of date (R 1.8.0) but my Linux /usr/lib/R/bin/INSTALL
> has:
You are, but it still has...
> if test -f "${1}"; then
> pkgname=`basename "${1}"`
> ## Also allow for 'package.tgz' ...
> pkgname=`basename "${pkgname}" .tgz`
I don't think an unversioned .tar.gz file survives that treatment
though.
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