Re: [Rd] possibly stupid question about RPM building

2006-07-18 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On Tue, 18 Jul 2006, Ben Bolker wrote: > > I'm trying to build an RPM of R 2.3.1 on a very old RedHat system > (specifically, a ROCKS 3.3.0 cluster which is built on RH enterprise > 3 (I think??)) `Very old' to me suggested 7.x or so > I downloaded R-2.3.1.tgz from CRAN; downloaded the

[Rd] possibly stupid question about RPM building

2006-07-18 Thread Ben Bolker
I'm trying to build an RPM of R 2.3.1 on a very old RedHat system (specifically, a ROCKS 3.3.0 cluster which is built on RH enterprise 3 (I think??)) I downloaded R-2.3.1.tgz from CRAN; downloaded the R.spec file cran.r-project.org/http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/redhat/SRPMS/ ; and ran r