R-devel rpm name conflict

[rundel]

The current naming convention used for the R-devel rpm package for Fedora (and I assume other rpm based distro) conflicts with the distribution R-devel package which prevents install unless using a solely r-builds based R deployment.

Some slight modification of the internal naming scheme (within the package metadata) for the r-builds package would resolve this issue.

sudo dnf install R-devel-1-1.x86_64.rpm 
Last metadata expiration check: 0:51:08 ago on Tue 08 Apr 2025 08:41:58 PM EDT.
Error: 
 Problem: problem with installed package R-4.4.3-1.fc40.x86_64
  - package R-4.4.3-1.fc40.x86_64 from @System requires R-devel(x86-64) = 4.4.3-1.fc40, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package R-4.4.3-1.fc40.x86_64 from updates requires R-devel(x86-64) = 4.4.3-1.fc40, but none of the providers can be installed
  - package R-4.3.3-1.fc40.x86_64 from fedora requires R-devel(x86-64) = 4.3.3-1.fc40, but none of the providers can be installed
  - cannot install both R-devel-1-1.x86_64 from @commandline and R-devel-4.4.3-1.fc40.x86_64 from @System
  - cannot install both R-devel-1-1.x86_64 from @commandline and R-devel-4.3.3-1.fc40.x86_64 from fedora
  - cannot install both R-devel-1-1.x86_64 from @commandline and R-devel-4.4.3-1.fc40.x86_64 from updates
  - conflicting requests
(try to add '--allowerasing' to command line to replace conflicting packages or '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

[glin]

Oh, good to know, thanks. Maybe a lowercase r-devel package would work, and also make the package names consistent across all distros. We can consider a change like this while moving to DEB/RPM repositories later.

Until then, you could extract the RPM, or install manually from the tarballs, e.g. https://cdn.posit.co/r/fedora-41/R-devel-fedora-41.tar.gz

https://github.com/rstudio/r-builds?tab=readme-ov-file#r-builds-tarballs

[rundel]

I was able to get it working by renaming the package with rpmrebuild - not ideal but it was enough to get things installed.