[RkWard-devel] Gentoo ebuild

[Juan Manuel Peralta]

Hi.  I recently found out about rkward (version 0.3.5) and started using it. 
Since I use Gentoo linux, and coudn't find an 'ebuild' for it, I made one for 
it (see the attachment). Today I saw the 0.3.6 release, and found that you 
have an ebuild for it. I inspected it, and saw that you have to work around 
the 'sandboxing' to get the R library compiled and installed. I used a 
different approach in my 0.3.5 ebuild.  
Basically I created a patch for the make file that deals with the R library 
compilation to make R compile a binary package. Then, instead of having R 
installing the package, I unpackage the binary under the image directory 
inside the sandbox environment. This efectively allows installation and clean 
up of rkward under gentoo without sandbox violations and work arounds.
Oh, and the need for a patch could also be removed if the build process of 
rkward uses the same sort of indirect instalation of the R library (compile 
with R, then unpack where it should go).
I believe this is a much cleaner approach for an ebuild, and I thought that 
you might be interested in it. In any case, I just wanted to make a tiny 
contribution to a quite useful software.

Juan
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