[R-SIG-Mac] Reminder: Please test the 2.9.0 beta/rc binaries!

[Rolf Turner]

On 11/04/2009, at 11:06 AM, David Winsemius wrote:

>
> On Apr 10, 2009, at 6:12 PM, Simon Urbanek wrote:
>
>> David,
>>
>> On Apr 10, 2009, at 5:55 PM, David Winsemius wrote:
>>
>>> I downloaded the Leopard 64 bit pkg: R-2.9-beta-48309.pkg
>>>
>>> It installed without apparent error. I want to retain version 2.8.1
>>> so I checked to make sure the receipt had been deleted.
>>>
>>
>> The receipts are now superseded in Leopard by an internal database
>> which is controlled by pkgutil, so you have to use pkgutil --forget
>> instead.
>
> I forgot to mention that I also tried that strategem at a bash prompt
> after reading the MacOSX FAQ and was given the response the no such
> program could be found.
>
> bash: pkutil: command not found
>
> I am thinking I may not be properly qualified to be on R's bleeding
> edge.

Very few are, mate. :-)

I likewise got the ``command not found'' jazz when I tried pkgutil
from the command line (tcsh not bash).  Then I tried the ``locate''
command (which I've recently found out about) and

	locate pkgutil

turned up

/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/pkgutil.py
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/pkgutil.pyc
/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/ 
python2.3/pkgutil.pyo

So pkgutil is a python script.  I don't know what to *do* with that  
information, but!

Hoping that this may be a *little* help to you.

	cheers,

		Rolf Turner

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