[R-SIG-Mac] R-4.0.5.pkg Bug Report

[Simon Urbanek]

I have fixed it (it only needs a slight modification of the regex) and responded, unfortunately my posts get blocked at ETH :( The nightlies should have the new post flight script so please test.

Cheers,
Simon



> On May 9, 2021, at 21:11, peter dalgaard <pdalgd using gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Eek, yes, that needs fixing. And of course only newcomers get hit because others will have the symlinks in place already.
> 
> I believe that instead of the grep '^1[5-9]' business you need something like
> 
> IFS=. read major minor pl << EOF
> `uname -r`
> EOF
> 
> and then a numeric check on $major.
> 
> -pd
> 
>> On 9 May 2021, at 01:15 , Yuri Broze <yuribroze using gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi folks,
>> 
>> Apologies if this bug has already been noticed, but I wanted to share just
>> in case it hasn't yet, and this was the best place I found.
>> 
>> The current CRAN-hosted MacOS installation package fails to correctly
>> create symbolic links to /usr/local/bin for machines with `uname -r`
>> release version of 20 or above. The faulty logic is in
>> R/R-fw.pkg/Scripts/postflight; lines 6-13:
>> 
>> if uname -r | grep '^1[5-9]' >/dev/null; then
>>   ## 15.0 and higher don't allow messing with /usr/bin
>>   ## so use /usr/local/bin instead
>>   if [ ! -e /usr/local/bin ]; then
>>   mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
>>   fi
>>   cd /usr/local/bin
>> fi
>> 
>> This seems to have resulted in some commotion on Stack Exchange and other
>> places around an inability to access `R` or `Rscript` from the commandline,
>> along with the usual hacky workarounds.
>> 
>> Hope this is helpful to bring to your attention!
>> 
>> Best,
>> Yuri
>> 
>> Yuri Broze
>> 314.910.3152
>> 
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