On 03/03/06, José Matos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > in Fedora Extras we build R packages to a temporary directory. The > relevant section in > the spec file is this: > > %build > cd ..; R CMD INSTALL %{packname} -l %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/R/library > > It works. :-) > > We noticed one problem though (I will assume working on ix86 here) the > temporary build path is saved in > /usr/lib/R/library/*/Meta/hsearch.rds, i.e. for each package.
Searching a little bit more I see that Peter Daalgard came to the same conclusion one month ago: https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2006-February/086069.html > To see this is enough to run strings over these file. > > Is this a security concern? Does R uses this path in any way? > > In case the answer is yes, it is safe to run sed over this file and do > a textual replacement? > > Thanks and best regards, > -- > José Matos > -- José Abílio ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel