On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 15:27 -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote:
The dependency resolution in R2spec introduces loops.
Try to build foreach or iterators. In R2spec's calculation of deps, they depend on each other. This appears to be because R2spec promotes a 'suggests' to a 'depends'.
This might be because the 'suggests' is used in the vigniettes?
As per Fedora R-packaging guidelines 'suggests' and 'depends' are treated in the same way. This is a problem when trying to build lots of packages in the row* so there now** a --nosuggest option available. This option does what it says, it does not treat 'suggests' as Requires/BuildRequires. The --nocheck option might also be needed in this case as R CMD CHECK normally complains when there is a 'suggests' missing.
Hope this helps, Pierre
* Yes, I did try to build quite a part of cran using R2rpm/R2spec ** On the git repo, I have not made a release with these changes yet