Hi R-interested packagers and others,
Recently, I've been looking at how RPM can automatically determine
Provides and Requires [1]. I have since implemented this for R using
an R script [2] and some file attributes [3]. Following other
languages' Provides, I have namespaced them as R(packageName). It then
adds corresponding Requires, Suggests, and Enhances.
Additionally, R package versions commonly contain dashes. In order to
work in RPM, these are replaced with dots. For the automated
Provides/Requires, I have used the *real* versions instead.
So now the question is how to apply this.