[R-sig-Fedora] R2spec woes

[Elliott Sales de Andrade]

On Tue, 11 Aug 2020 at 02:35, Elliott Sales de Andrade
<quantum.analyst using gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi José,
>
> On Mon, 10 Aug 2020 at 11:20, José Abílio Matos <jamatos using 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,
> > --
> > José Abílio
>
> --
> Elliott

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Elliott