[Rd] Build directory path saved in Meta/hsearch.rds

[José Matos]

On 03/03/06, José Matos <jaomatos at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

  Searching a little bit more I see that Peter Daalgard came to the
same conclusion one month ago:
https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-February/086069.html

> 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,
> --
> José Matos
>

--
José Abílio