[Fedora-r-devel-list] Building RPMs for Fedora with circular "suggest" dependencies

[José Matos]

On 06/15/2012 02:25 PM, William Emmanuel S. Yu wrote:
> Hi Allen,
>
> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> I actually encountered this point of yours and that is why I found this mailing list.
>
> On your solution, I did try putting 'export _R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS_ = false; R CMD check' in the spec file. But now, it fails again again doing a test that requires foreach while building iterator. 
>
> Thanks again.
> "Sent via BlackBerry from Smart"

Hi,
    have you been able to proceed here?

I suppose that the only real option is to proceed in several steps in a
kind of bootstrapping setup, first ignoring the suggests and the checks
and on a second round adding those back. Probably this is easier said
then done. :-)

Regards,

-- 
José Matos