[Rd] R CMD INSTALL and file permission settings
Simon Urbanek
simon.urbanek at r-project.org
Sun Jun 16 01:38:21 CEST 2013
On Jun 15, 2013, at 2:42 PM, Martin Maechler wrote:
>>>>>> Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org>
>>>>>> on Sat, 15 Jun 2013 10:45:04 -0500 writes:
>
>> On 15 June 2013 at 07:00, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
>> |
>> | On 15 June 2013 at 07:47, Simon Urbanek wrote: | |
>> Because update.packages() doesn't restore the
>> group-writable bit. Which leads us to my point that this
>> is not what you really want.
>> |
>> | Ooops. I'll take another look.
>
>> Done. "It works." For fairly generous definitions of
>> working. I'll detail:
>
>> i) My initial patch only used options() to set things.
>> Martin was not to enthralled with this and guided the
>> patch towards using --group-writable as an option.
>
>> ii) With --group-writable, installation works but updates
>> fail as noticed by Simon.
>
>> iii) If we fall back to using options() [ or an
>> environment variable ], things works. A log is below.
>
> Hmm, but this only works if everyone who calls update.packages() also has
> this options() setting, no?
> Why would the update keep the package files group writable otherwise ?
> If the updater has no group-writable option she can still update
> the package you installed, but you can no longer, right?
>
> I still think the approach to abolish all settings and just
> trigger group-writable package installation *when* the library
> directory is group writable is so simple we should adopt it,
> and can forget all options/ command line arguments / environment
> variables about this topic.
>
I fully agree. Also thanks for summarizing the discussion earlier today - it was dead on.
Thanks,
Simon
> Martin
>
>> iv) I guess those of you who want the --group-writeable
>> option need to ensure it also works for update.packages()
>> as new option?
>
>> I am happy with what we have right now as it works in the
>> context established by my patch. Martin's addition of
>> --group-writable is a bit more ambitious and we may need
>> to enhance update.package(), or tell everybody to also
>> (??) use the option() setting, or environment variable.
>
>> Two things follow, a quick test script and a log from the
>> script.
>
>> Dirk
>
>
>> Script
>>
>> #!/bin/bash
>>
>> ## we use digest as an example as it is pretty small
>> cd ~/svn/digest
>> ls -l digest_0.6.?.tar.gz
>>
>> ## we make two assumptions:
>> ##
>> ## a) R-devel (called via a shell script wrapper)
>> ~/bin/R-devel.sh --version | head -1
>> ##
>> ## b) An option has been set
>> cat /usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/etc/Rprofile.site
>>
>> ## now install an older version so that we can upgrade later
>> ## this is running as 'edd' ie me
>> ~/bin/R-devel.sh CMD INSTALL digest_0.6.2.tar.gz
>>
>> ls -ld /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/
>> ls -lR /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/
>>
>> ## now try the upgrade as another user in the group
>> sudo su lmp -c '~edd/bin/R-devel.sh -e "update.packages(repos=\"http://cran.r-project.org\", ask=FALSE, lib.loc=\"/usr/local/lib/R/site-library\")"'
>>
>> ls -ld /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/
>> ls -lR /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/
>>
>>
>>
>> Session log
>>
>> edd at max:~$ /tmp/testRupgrade.sh
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 edd edd 53344 Nov 25 2012 digest_0.6.0.tar.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 edd edd 76839 Jan 21 09:25 digest_0.6.1.tar.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 edd edd 76771 Jan 25 11:33 digest_0.6.2.tar.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 edd edd 78002 Feb 16 06:35 digest_0.6.3.tar.gz
>> R Under development (unstable) (2013-06-14 r62964) -- "Unsuffered Consequences"
>> options("group.writable.pkgs"=TRUE)
>> * installing to library ‘/usr/local/lib/R/site-library’
>> * installing *source* package ‘digest’ ...
>> ** libs
>> ccache gcc-4.7 -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -O3 -g0 -Wall -pipe -pedantic -std=gnu99 -c aes.c -o aes.o
>> ccache gcc-4.7 -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -O3 -g0 -Wall -pipe -pedantic -std=gnu99 -c crc32.c -o crc32.o
>> ccache gcc-4.7 -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -O3 -g0 -Wall -pipe -pedantic -std=gnu99 -c digest.c -o digest.o
>> ccache gcc-4.7 -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -O3 -g0 -Wall -pipe -pedantic -std=gnu99 -c md5.c -o md5.o
>> ccache gcc-4.7 -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -O3 -g0 -Wall -pipe -pedantic -std=gnu99 -c raes.c -o raes.o
>> ccache gcc-4.7 -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -O3 -g0 -Wall -pipe -pedantic -std=gnu99 -c sha1.c -o sha1.o
>> ccache gcc-4.7 -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -O3 -g0 -Wall -pipe -pedantic -std=gnu99 -c sha2.c -o sha2.o
>> ccache gcc-4.7 -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -O3 -g0 -Wall -pipe -pedantic -std=gnu99 -c sha256.c -o sha256.o
>> sha2.c: In function ‘SHA256_Final’:
>> sha2.c:606:3: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
>> sha2.c: In function ‘SHA512_Last’:
>> sha2.c:923:2: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
>> sha2.c:924:2: warning: dereferencing type-punned pointer will break strict-aliasing rules [-Wstrict-aliasing]
>> ccache gcc-4.7 -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o digest.so aes.o crc32.o digest.o md5.o raes.o sha1.o sha2.o sha256.o -L/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/lib -lR
>> installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/libs
>> ** R
>> ** inst
>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
>> ** help
>> *** installing help indices
>> ** building package indices
>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>> * DONE (digest)
>> drwxrwxr-x 7 edd staff 4096 Jun 15 10:42 /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/:
>> total 52
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 1605 Jun 15 10:42 DESCRIPTION
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 18092 Jun 15 10:42 GPL-2
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 edd staff 4096 Jun 15 10:42 help
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 edd staff 4096 Jun 15 10:42 html
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 271 Jun 15 10:42 INDEX
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 edd staff 4096 Jun 15 10:42 libs
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 edd staff 4096 Jun 15 10:42 Meta
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 140 Jun 15 10:42 NAMESPACE
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 edd staff 4096 Jun 15 10:42 R
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/help:
>> total 36
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 80 Jun 15 10:42 aliases.rds
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 32 Jun 15 10:42 AnIndex
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 17857 Jun 15 10:42 digest.rdb
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 193 Jun 15 10:42 digest.rdx
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 140 Jun 15 10:42 paths.rds
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/html:
>> total 8
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 1236 Jun 15 10:42 00Index.html
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 1179 Jun 15 10:42 R.css
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/libs:
>> total 120
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 edd staff 118956 Jun 15 10:42 digest.so
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/Meta:
>> total 20
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 351 Jun 15 10:42 hsearch.rds
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 117 Jun 15 10:42 links.rds
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 224 Jun 15 10:42 nsInfo.rds
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 1271 Jun 15 10:42 package.rds
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 331 Jun 15 10:42 Rd.rds
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/R:
>> total 16
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 1056 Jun 15 10:42 digest
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 4168 Jun 15 10:42 digest.rdb
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 edd staff 388 Jun 15 10:42 digest.rdx
>>
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>>> update.packages(repos="http://cran.r-project.org", ask=FALSE, lib.loc="/usr/local/lib/R/site-library")
>> trying URL 'http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/digest_0.6.3.tar.gz'
>> Content type 'application/x-gzip' length 80083 bytes (78 Kb)
>> opened URL
>> ==================================================
>> downloaded 78 Kb
>>
>> * installing *source* package ‘digest’ ...
>> ** package ‘digest’ successfully unpacked and MD5 sums checked
>> ** libs
>> ccache gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic -c aes.c -o aes.o
>> ccache gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic -c crc32.c -o crc32.o
>> ccache gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic -c digest.c -o digest.o
>> ccache gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic -c md5.c -o md5.o
>> ccache gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic -c raes.c -o raes.o
>> ccache gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic -c sha1.c -o sha1.o
>> ccache gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic -c sha2.c -o sha2.o
>> ccache gcc -I/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/include -DNDEBUG -I/usr/local/include -fpic -ggdb -pipe -std=gnu99 -Wall -pedantic -c sha256.c -o sha256.o
>> ccache gcc -shared -L/usr/local/lib -o digest.so aes.o crc32.o digest.o md5.o raes.o sha1.o sha2.o sha256.o -L/usr/local/lib/R-devel/lib/R/lib -lR
>> installing to /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/libs
>> ** R
>> ** inst
>> ** preparing package for lazy loading
>> ** help
>> *** installing help indices
>> ** building package indices
>> ** testing if installed package can be loaded
>> * DONE (digest)
>>
>> The downloaded source packages are in
>> ‘/tmp/RtmpxJgmSB/downloaded_packages’
>>>
>>>
>> drwxrwxr-x 7 lmp staff 4096 Jun 15 10:42 /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/:
>> total 52
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 1767 Jun 15 10:42 DESCRIPTION
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 18092 Jun 15 10:42 GPL-2
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 lmp staff 4096 Jun 15 10:42 help
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 lmp staff 4096 Jun 15 10:42 html
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 253 Jun 15 10:42 INDEX
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 lmp staff 4096 Jun 15 10:42 libs
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 lmp staff 4096 Jun 15 10:42 Meta
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 140 Jun 15 10:42 NAMESPACE
>> drwxrwxr-x 2 lmp staff 4096 Jun 15 10:42 R
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/help:
>> total 36
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 80 Jun 15 10:42 aliases.rds
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 32 Jun 15 10:42 AnIndex
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 17871 Jun 15 10:42 digest.rdb
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 195 Jun 15 10:42 digest.rdx
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 140 Jun 15 10:42 paths.rds
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/html:
>> total 8
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 1236 Jun 15 10:42 00Index.html
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 1179 Jun 15 10:42 R.css
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/libs:
>> total 172
>> -rwxrwxr-x 1 lmp staff 175154 Jun 15 10:42 digest.so
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/Meta:
>> total 20
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 351 Jun 15 10:42 hsearch.rds
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 117 Jun 15 10:42 links.rds
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 224 Jun 15 10:42 nsInfo.rds
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 1325 Jun 15 10:42 package.rds
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 331 Jun 15 10:42 Rd.rds
>>
>> /usr/local/lib/R/site-library/digest/R:
>> total 16
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 1056 Jun 15 10:42 digest
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 4205 Jun 15 10:42 digest.rdb
>> -rw-rw-r-- 1 lmp staff 385 Jun 15 10:42 digest.rdx
>> edd at max:~$
>>
>> --
>> Dirk Eddelbuettel | edd at debian.org | http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com
>
>
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