From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Galeon/1.3.21 Description of problem: When install R-mAr, the %postinstall scriptlet reports an error: sudo yum install R-mAr [...] Running Transaction Installing: kdelibs ####################### [ 1/13] Installing: SDL_ttf ####################### [ 2/13] Installing: SDL_gfx ####################### [ 3/13] Installing: physfs ####################### [ 4/13] Installing: tk-devel ####################### [ 5/13] Installing: R-devel ####################### [ 6/13] Installing: R-mAr ####################### [ 7/13] Unknown option: htmllists Usage: R CMD build-help.pl [options] [pkg] [lib] Install all help files for package pkg to library lib Options: -h, --help print short help message and exit -v, --version print version info and exit -d, --debug print debugging information -os, --OS OS to assume: unix (default) or windows --rhome R home directory, defaults to environment R_HOME --html build HTML files (default is all) --txt build text files (default is all) --latex build LaTeX files (default is all) --example build example files (default is all) --dosnames use 8.3 filenames --index build index file only Email bug reports to <r-bugs>. Installing: python-simpletal ####################### [ 8/13] Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): R-mAr-1.1-2.fc4 How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. Attempt to install R-mAr via yum: yum install R-mAr Actual Results: Extra output produced: Unknown option: htmllists Usage: R CMD build-help.pl [options] [pkg] [lib] Install all help files for package pkg to library lib Options: -h, --help print short help message and exit -v, --version print version info and exit -d, --debug print debugging information -os, --OS OS to assume: unix (default) or windows --rhome R home directory, defaults to environment R_HOME --html build HTML files (default is all) --txt build text files (default is all) --latex build LaTeX files (default is all) --example build example files (default is all) --dosnames use 8.3 filenames --index build index file only Email bug reports to <r-bugs>. Expected Results: No output for the yum installation line should have been produced. Additional info: It appears that there is a problem with the --htmllists optin, it is apparently an unknown in the version of Perl in Fedora Core 4. rpm -q --scripts R-mAr postinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): /usr/bin/R CMD perl /usr/lib/R/share/perl/build-help.pl --htmllists cat /usr/lib/R/library/*/CONTENTS > /usr/lib/R/doc/html/search/index.txt postuninstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh): /usr/bin/R CMD perl /usr/lib/R/share/perl/build-help.pl --htmllists cat /usr/lib/R/library/*/CONTENTS > /usr/lib/R/doc/html/search/index.txt
The problem is not perl but /usr/lib/R/share/perl/build-help.pl This helper script no longer has the --htmllists option. I have asked in the r-devel mailing list what is the best advice to proceed from here.
I have removed the offending lines as they are no longer necessary in the new R version. I will let the packages to be released to close the bug.
Did a clean install: "yum remove R-mAr", followed by a "yum install R-mAr". Error messages gone. Closing bug.