On Tue, 2011-04-12 at 16:57 -0400, Allen S. Rout wrote: > > I have the opinion that the current manner of failing doesn't > communicate what's going on very well. Would you consider documenting > this requirement in the usage message, or even failing with an > informative message? As in print the error message in the console rather than in the build file ? Or do you have something else in mind ? > I also think that there are other sources of packages than the various > repos. It seems incorrect to me to insist that we name one. For this I had few ideas but I do not know how far I went with them: - One idea was to be able to add repositories on the ~/.R2spec. Now that I am thinking about it, I guess something like: [repository] bioc = http://bioconductor.org cran = http://cran.r-project.org mine = http://pingoured.fr where one could then call R2spec/R2rpm with --repo=mine or --repo=bioc or something like this. - Another idea might be to just specify the repository via an argument --URL="http://pingoured.fr"; R2spec was designed to easily create spec file which would then be reviewed and corrected by human. It has evolved to include rpm building but I have the feeling that it might need a good redesign, maybe a version 3.0.0 ;-) Best regards, Pierre _______________________________________________ r-devel mailing list r-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
