Mark, You rock for the super-speedy reply!
On 28 December 2009 at 13:55, Mark Brown wrote: | On 28 Dec 2009, at 13:35, Dirk Eddelbuettel <[email protected]> wrote: | | > We're having a rather serious breakage in R when the zlib1g from | > unstable is | > installed. R transparently wraps its file operations around open()/ | > gzopen() | > and now no longer works on uncompressed files -- see the logs of | > this bug | > report for examples from read.dcf(), an internal R function critical | > to its | > use of its packages and pretty close to how we deal with debian/ | > control. | > | > Is there anything upstream or in your packaging that you could | > suspect? I | > haven't talk to R upstream yet some of whom are usually pretty | > current so I'd | > expect them to use a current libz as well. | | Which specific version are you running and do you have a reproduction | case? -1 was broken in this respect but -2 should fix the issue I know | about. This was working for me in my tests. There were some minor | changes here but straightforward usage seemed to be working well. I'm | on a mobile connection so can't test any R specific stuff until much | later today. Three different Debian unstable users reported / confirmed the issue. A simple test would be what has piled up in the bug reports, eg as demonstrated by ChenLiang things break once we wrap gzfile() around: readLines(gzfile(system.file("DESCRIPTION", package="lattice"))) returns nothing with the 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-2 version whereas I on testing -- and the unstable users who downgraded -- get the whole record: ~> echo 'readLines(gzfile(system.file("DESCRIPTION", package="lattice")))' | R --slave [1] "Package: lattice" "Version: 0.17-26" [3] "Date: 2009/10/05" "Priority: recommended" [5] "Title: Lattice Graphics" "Author: Deepayan Sarkar <[email protected]>" [7] "Maintainer: Deepayan Sarkar <[email protected]>" "Description: Implementation of Trellis Graphics. See ?Lattice for a" [9] " brief introduction" "Depends: R (>= 2.5.0)" [11] "Suggests: grid, KernSmooth" "Imports: grid, grDevices, graphics, stats, utils" [13] "Enhances: chron" "LazyLoad: yes" [15] "LazyData: yes" "License: GPL (>= 2)" [17] "Packaged: 2009-10-04 19:52:55 UTC; dsarkar" "Repository: CRAN" [19] "Date/Publication: 2009-10-05 07:01:14" "Built: R 2.10.0; i486-pc-linux-gnu; 2009-11-21 20:08:58 UTC; unix" ~> You should be able to run this on the shell. Let me know how I can help. I should be near email for the next 10 hours when we're off to another little neighbourhood Xmas party. Dirk | | > Thanks a bunch, Dirk | > | > On 28 December 2009 at 14:06, Johannes Fichtinger wrote: | > | Hallo Dirk! | > | | > | Am Montag, 28. Dezember 2009 13:24:29 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel: | > | > On the other hand, the library for gzip (zlib) is something | > where Debian | > | > could be different which is wht 'we' see the bug and nobody | > else. What do | > | > you have on sid -- I have | > | > | > | > ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression | > library - runtime | > | > ii zlib1g-dev 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression | > library - | > | > development | > | > | > | > and 'apt-cache policy' leads to a newer version on unstable | > | > (1:2.3.4.dfsg-15) | > | > | > | > Can you downgrade zlib1g and see if this persists? | > | | > | No, here it does not. Downgrading the library to 1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 | > from testing | > | solves the problem for me. | > | | > | Best greetings, | > | Johannes | > | > -- | > Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. | > -- Three out of two people have difficulties with fractions. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
