Microsoft’s failed attempt on Debian packaging
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Just recently Microsoft Open R 3.5 was announced, as an open source implementation of R with some improvements. Binaries are available for Windows, Mac, and Linux. I dared to download and play around with the files, only to get shocked how incompetent Microsoft is in packaging.
From the microsoft-r-open-mro-3.5.0 postinstall script:
#!/bin/bash
#TODO: Avoid hard code VERSION number in all scripts
VERSION=`echo $DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE | sed 's/[[:alpha:]|(|[:space:]]//g' | sed 's/\-*//' | awk -F. '{print $1 "." $2 "." $3}'`
INSTALL_PREFIX="/opt/microsoft/ropen/${VERSION}"
echo $VERSION
ln -s "${INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib64/R/bin/R" /usr/bin/R
ln -s "${INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib64/R/bin/Rscript" /usr/bin/Rscript
rm /bin/sh
ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh
First of all, the ln -s will not work in case the standard R package is installed, but much worse, forcibly relinking /bin/sh to bash is something I didn’t expect to see.
Then, looking at the prerm script, it is getting even more funny:
#!/bin/bash
VERSION=`echo $DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE | sed 's/[[:alpha:]|(|[:space:]]//g' | sed 's/\-*//' | awk -F. '{print $1 "." $2 "." $3}'`
INSTALL_PREFIX="/opt/microsoft/ropen/${VERSION}/"
rm /usr/bin/R
rm /usr/bin/Rscript
rm -rf "${INSTALL_PREFIX}/lib64/R/backup"
Stop, wait, you are removing /usr/bin/R without even checking that it points to the R you have installed???
I guess Microsoft should read a bit up, in particular about dpkg-divert and proper packaging. What came in here was such an exhibition of incompetence that I can only assume they are doing it on purpose.
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