I have a vague recollection of seeing some comments regarding flags for cp that should be avoided in packaging scripts. Perhaps this was in the discussion of bashisms.
In creating the r-base package I need to manually copy a directory tree into ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/R. Right now I do this using "cp -a". Is that practice frowned upon? Would using tar for this be preferred? I also have a question about lndir. In creating the r-contrib package of contributed libraries the installation scripts for the libraries will try to install them in the current RHOME which will generally be that /usr/lib/R directory mentioned above. My current plan is to lndir the /usr/lib/R tree into ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/R, change the environment variable defining RHOME, go through the usual installation script for an R library, remove the symbolic links for everything except the ./debian/tmp/usr/lib/R/library directory and continue with the packaging. Are there alternatives that would be preferred? -- Douglas Bates [EMAIL PROTECTED] Statistics Department 608/262-2598 University of Wisconsin - Madison http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~bates/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
