[Fedora-r-devel-list] R2rpm...

[Pierre-Yves Chibon]

On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 15:10 -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote:
> When I try to build from a local source, it fails to find the source
> file.
[...]
> [root at troll-2 cran]# R2rpm -s /var/tmp/cran/plyr_1.2.1.tar.gz
(Do you always build as root ? I was always told that it should be
avoided)
[...]
> * Building the rpm (this may take some time)
>   LANG=C rpmbuild -ba R-plyr.spec > build-R-plyr.spec.log 2>&1
> An error occured during the build
> 'An error occured at build time, see the log 
> in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/build-R-plyr.spec.log'

> If I copy the file somewhere else and reference it as a URL, it
> works. 

Check the log file ;-)

That is simply because calling R2rpm -s without specifying --bioc or
--cran leads to 'URL' tag in the spec.

Best regards,
Pierre