[R-sig-Fedora] R 2.8.1

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Mon Jan 5 16:09:29 CET 2009


On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 12:31 +0100, Martyn Plummer wrote:

> I think we need to add pango-devel as a build requirement, so that the
> cairo graphics device uses the pango layout engine.
> 
> If you want to test this, I have rebuilt the RPMS with mock, after
> adding pango-devel to BuildRequires, and put them here:
> http://calvin.iarc.fr/~martyn/R-2.8.1/
> 
> I don't get the same "missing mu" bug, but I have some commercial fonts
> installed. I do get error messages about missing font metrics, however,
> which would be due to the lack of pango.
> 
> 
> I also noticed that libRmath-devel does not pull in the right release of
> libRmath. The requirements for libRmath-devel are currently:
> 
> Requires: libRmath = %{version}, pkgconfig
> 
> but should be:
> 
> Requires: libRmath = %{version}-%{release}, pkgconfig

See, this is why testing the updates is such a good thing. :)

Thanks Martyn and Peter for figuring this out, I'll do new builds right
now.

~spot



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