Rebuilding all 100+ r-cran-* packages for R 2.10.0 + security question
[ I send the following to d-devel and d-science earlier today; Cyril
responded suggesting that talk to -release re paragraphs 2 and 3, and to
-security re paragraph 4. Comments welcome, and CCs appreciated. --Dirk ]
On 16 October 2009 at 13:29, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| R 2.10.0, due out October 26, will switch to an internal html converter from
| the latex-alike Rd format coupled with an internal webserver. See below for
| the section on 'Significant user-visible changes' in the NEWS file from
| 2.10.0 -- taken from the Oct 13 beta currently in unstable.
|
| This means we "should" rebuild all packages or else they will upon load
| trigger a nagging message 'package foo was built under R version x.y.z and
| may not function properly' as well as possible malfunctions of the help
| system. As we're only talking 100+ packages, this should work.
|
| I would appreciate some pointers as to how I can milk out fancypants new mega
| databases to extracts all packages (matching r-cran-*; there are only one or
| two exceptions to that rules) and their maintainers ... and ideally even
| monitor most recent re-builds. Anybody feel like sharing some hints with me
| off-line?
|
| Also, and the security minded folks may want to consider the second bullet
| point: do we need to worry about this or not as it is just the loopback
| interface? Seems fine to me but I figured I'd better ask :)
|
| Please CC me on replies.
|
| Cheers, Dirk
|
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| **************************************************
| * *
| * 2.10 SERIES NEWS *
| * *
| **************************************************
|
|
| CHANGES IN R VERSION 2.10.0
|
|
| SIGNIFICANT USER-VISIBLE CHANGES
|
| o Package help is now converted from Rd by the R-based converters
| that were first introduced in 2.9.0. This means
|
| - Packages that were installed by R-devel after 2009-08-09
| should not be used with earlier versions of R, and most
| aspects of package help (including the runnable examples)
| will be missing if they are so used.
|
| - Text, HTML and latex help and examples for packages
| installed under the new system are converted on-demand from
| stored parsed Rd files. (Conversions stored in packages
| installed under R < 2.10.0 are used if no parsed Rd files
| are found. It is recommended that such packages be
| re-installed.)
|
|
| o HTML help is now generated dynamically using an HTTP server
| running in the R process and listening on the loopback
| interface.
|
| - Those worried about security implications of such a server
| can disable it by setting the environment variable
| R_DISABLE_HTTPD to a non-empty value. This disables
| help.start() and HTML help (so text help is shown instead).
|
| - The Java/Javascript search engine has been replaced by an
| HTML interface to help.search(). help.start() no longer has
| an argument 'searchEngine' as it is no longer needed.
|
| - The HTML help can now locate cross-references of the form
| \link[pkg]{foo} and \link[pkg:foo]{bar} where 'foo' is an
| alias in the package, rather than the documented (basename
| of a) filename (since the documentation has been much
| ignored).
|
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