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FS#21786 - [r] backup of $R_HOME/etc/{Makeconf,Renviron}

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by marco (domanov) - Monday, 22 November 2010, 15:31 GMT
Last edited by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Sunday, 21 August 2011, 10:54 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Ronald van Haren (pressh)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

Description:
It would be nice to add the 'backup' array to R's PKGBUILD in order to preserve machine-specific settings like Makeconf and Renviron (in $RHOME/etc/) which otherwise get overwritten at every update.

Additional info:
* package version(s)
all R versions until now

Steps to reproduce:
pacman -Sy r
modify /usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf (for example cflags, -mtune=native -O3)
pacman -S r
/usr/lib/R/etc/Makeconf is overwritten.
This task depends upon

Closed by  Eric Belanger (Snowman)
Sunday, 21 August 2011, 10:54 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  fixed in r 2.13.1-1
Comment by Matt Neilson (machoo02) - Tuesday, 12 April 2011, 14:39 GMT
Attached a patch file adding backup array to PKGBUILD
   r-backup.patch (0.4 KiB)
Comment by Matt Neilson (machoo02) - Friday, 06 May 2011, 16:30 GMT
Just curious as why this patch was not accepted during the update to 2.13?
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Friday, 06 May 2011, 16:33 GMT
I'll add it to 2.13-2 in the next few days.
Comment by Ronald van Haren (pressh) - Wednesday, 20 July 2011, 07:21 GMT
I moved the config files to /etc and created symlinks. The config files are added to the backup array now.

As I don't use R that much, can you test if this works as expected. The package is in [testing] but doesn't depend on anything else in [testing] so it is safe to install on a [core]/[extra] install.

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