Creating an RPM package

Question

I want to create an RPM package that has dependency on R.

Question: How to list that in the spec file i.e. install all the R-dependencies and then go through the latest commands ?

Also, to install the R, I need to run "rpm -Uvh http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm" to get the EPEL repo.

And then I need to install other R-specific packages on top of the R-installation.

Can somebody please help.

Thanks..

Answer 1

According to the Fedora packaging page, the package name is R (makes it easy to find on the web, I suppose).

Your package's spec-file would list only the packages that it directly depends upon, e.g.,

Requires: R

If the version matters (probably not, at first), you would specify that on the Requires line. The (given that you are setting up EPEL and whatever repositories are required for dependencies), yum is capable of finding which dependencies are needed.

The question as stated does not make it clear if you need a pointer to a tutorial on RPM packaging. Besides the Fedora wiki, the best source of information is Maximum RPM.