Kind reminder. Any update on this? Iñaki On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 17:01, Iñaki Ucar <iucar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Oct 2018 at 15:02, Jason L Tibbitts III <tibbs@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > >>>>> "IU" == Iñaki Ucar <iucar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > IU> This URL format is not recommended by CRAN, but more importantly, > > IU> the Source0 format does not work anymore, as [1] noted, when a new > > IU> version is released. However, there is an immutable format > > IU> available, as [2] pointed out. So my proposal is to use always the > > IU> following lines instead: > > > > IU> URL: https://cran.r-project.org/package=%{packname} > > IU> Source0: %{url}&version=%{version} > > > > That's good to know. We should consider an %r_source macro similar to > > the existing %pypi_source macro which is used for python packages. See: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python/#_source_files_from_pypi > > That would be certainly great. I would call it %cran_source instead, > and a %cran_url would be helpful too, so that we can write the > following: > > URL: %cran_url > Source0: %cran_source > > or maybe something like %cran_origin could directly resolve into the > above two lines. > > > I would be happy to write it, but I don't enough about R packaging to > > know how uniformly the tags you mention above (%packname, specifically) > > are adhered to in the current packaging set. > > %packname is a global variable defined by the R2spec util. I've > checked (script attached in case you're interested) and basically all > the packages use this global. So the new macro(s) would accept up to > two arguments: the name of the R package, which should default to > %packname if defined, and the version, by default %version. > > > IU> which are both shorter and immutable, and I propose to add this to > > IU> the R packaging guidelines too. > > > > Well you should certainly open a ticket with the packaging committee if > > you wish to propose changes to the packaging guidelines. > > https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/ > > > > You can even send a pull request. > > Great. I'll wait for that if you're going to push forward this new macro. > > > IU> If we agree on this, is there any easy way to request a system-wide > > IU> change like that to all existing packages? > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mass_package_changes > > Thanks for the pointer. > > > > > - J< > > -- > Iñaki Ucar -- Iñaki Ucar _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
