On Tue, 11 Oct 2005, [UTF-8] José Matos wrote:

Hello,        I maintain some packages in Fedora Extras for R related modules.
       Until R 2.2.0 I used for post processing (both after installing 
andremoving the package) the following lines:
%{_bindir}/R CMD perl %{_libdir}/R/share/perl/build-help.pl --htmllistscat 
%{_libdir}/R/library/*/CONTENTS > %{_libdir}/R/doc/html/search/index.txt
       Typically %{_bindir} is /usr/bin and %{_libdir} is /usr/lib or/usr/lib64
       The purpose of those lines is to enable the access to the 
moduledocumentation from R help. The first refers to html and the second to 
thetext help variant.
       With R 2.2.0 build-help.pl no longer has the --htmllists option. Isthere 
any easy replacement, or is there any other method to achieve the sameresults?

It is no longer needed: the information is now built by R at runtime.

       FWIW, I have searched trough the release notes as well as through 
thedocumentation for sys admins and for package developers without anysuccess.

For an outsider it might not be obvious that the NEWS entry

    o   R_HOME/doc/html/packages.html is now remade by R not Perl code.
        This may result in small changes in layout and a change in
        encoding (to UTF-8 where supported).

refers to this. (Note that build-help.pl --htmllists was never documented as part of R's API.)

I checked Martyn Plummer's R.spec on CRAN, but that is out-of-date. Please look at the R.spec in his current SRPM, which works for me.

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