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

[Simon Urbanek]

Rolf,

On Apr 10, 2009, at 7:22 PM, Rolf Turner wrote:

>
> 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 The receipts are now superseded in Leopard by an internal database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
>

Are you sure you're talking about Leopard here? I think it is  
installed in the base OS X 10.5 at
/usr/sbin/pkgutil

This tool was not present in Tiger or older.

Cheers,
Simon


> 	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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