Sunday, February 26, 2023

Re: [proposal] math/rstudio - depend on net/curl as default download method

Hi Volker --

On 2/26/2023 2:42 PM, Volker Schlecht wrote:
> Ping, with updated subject. The initial one was a bit unfortunate...
>
> On 2/17/23 22:55, Volker Schlecht wrote:
>> Cc: Maintainer
>>
>> Currently math/rstudio always reports
>>
>> "Unable to set a secure (HTTPS) download.file.method (no compatible
>> method available in this installation of R)."
>>
>> at startup, which based on a sample size of one (me), may be confusing
>> to users and take quite a while to track down.
>>
>> The attached patch
>>
>> * adds a RUN_DEPENDS on net/curl
>> * adds a patch for RStudio to default to curl as default download
>> method for OpenBSD, just as for Darwin and Linux.
>>
>> With that in place, installing packages from a https CRAN mirror works
>> nicely for me.

I will test shortly. I am not opposed to this if it makes life easier.

~Brian

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