R2spec woes
On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 02:35, Elliott Sales de Andrade
<quantum.analyst at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Jos?, On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 11:20, Jos? Ab?lio Matos <jamatos at fc.up.pt> wrote:
I tried R2spec to create the spec files necessary to have Rcpparmadillo. I noticed that it has some issues, one example is that it placed some files irrespectively if they were present in the tar or not.
I would like to update this, but I'd also like to grab Jason's preliminary R macros, put them in R-rpm-macros, and just wholesale replace most of this boilerplate. I just haven't had much chance to really try it out.
Also, I had some plans to simplify some of the texlive dependencies, but I was waiting till after branching so I could do a F34 Change for any larger spec rewrites.
One functionality that I think it would be nice to have would to update a given spec file with the updated dependencies.
This is something I have started on, but it got a bit sidetracked. What I needed was a URL to grab previous archives, which Inaki provided some time ago. But then R2spec needed the ability to substitute macros in URLs for the version, and so I've left it at that for a while. I guess I can go back to working on that some time soon.
What do you think of this? Regards, -- Jos? Ab?lio
-- Elliott
Elliott