[R] broken installation on ubuntu 16.04 for 3.4.4-1xenial0

[David Winsemius]

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David

On 8/8/19 12:52 PM, kz using breadfinance.com wrote:
> Sorry for unintentionally sending a rich text email.
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> I have confirmed that installation follows ubuntu guide lines in your link and I reproduce the output of git blame of the installation recipe showing that it has always been using the right key.  The change before we get these errors are on March 2019.  The unauthenticated errors start late july or so.  This recipe runs at least once every week for a year or more and only a few weeks ago the installation fails.
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> 71637a7e7 (MK 2018-01-08 16:03:26 -0500  40) apt_repository 'rproject' do
> 71637a7e7 (MK 2018-01-08 16:03:26 -0500  41)   uri 'http://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu'
> 5b7928b56 (MK 2018-01-05 13:16:07 -0500  42)   keyserver 'keyserver.ubuntu.com'
> 5b7928b56 (MK 2018-01-05 13:16:07 -0500  43)   key 'E084DAB9'
> 71637a7e7 (MK 2018-01-08 16:03:26 -0500  44)   components ['']
> 71637a7e7 (MK 2018-01-08 16:03:26 -0500  45)   distribution node['lsb']['codename'] + '/'
> 71637a7e7 (MK 2018-01-08 16:03:26 -0500  46)   action :add
> 5b7928b56 (MK 2018-01-05 13:16:07 -0500  47) end
> 5b7928b56 (MK 2018-01-05 13:16:07 -0500  48)
> 5b7928b56 (MK 2018-01-05 13:16:07 -0500  49) package 'r-base' do
> 5a1e57649 (k z  2018-03-19 19:21:02 -0400  50)   version '3.4.4-1xenial0'
> 86242e5cf (k z   2019-08-07 08:27:42 -0400  51)   options '--allow-unauthenticated'
> 5b7928b56 (MK 2018-01-05 13:16:07 -0500  52) end
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>> On Aug 6, 2019, at 9:13 PM, Jeff Newmiller <jdnewmil using dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
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>> As the Posting Guide says... this is a plain text mailing list. You will help yourself if you pay attention when posting.
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>> The standard instructions for Ubuntu [1] describe how to set up authentication.
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>> [1] https://cran.r-project.org/bin/linux/ubuntu/README.html
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>> On August 6, 2019 10:52:05 AM PDT, KZ Win <kz using breadfinance.com> wrote:
>>> We have a test  system for boostrapping a production machine running R
>>> code.  It spins up a new machine and tries to install this version
>>> whenever
>>> there is a new commit to our infrastructure code repo.  This version
>>> has
>>> been in place since Mar 2018 but a few weeks ago this test fails
>>> because it
>>> can no longer install this package even though we have not made any
>>> changes
>>> to this installation process.
>>>
>>> The failure comes with this message
>>>
>>> ```
>>> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
>>> r-base-core r-cran-boot r-cran-cluster r-cran-foreign r-cran-mass
>>> r-cran-kernsmooth r-cran-lattice r-cran-nlme r-cran-matrix r-cran-mgcv
>>> r-cran-rpart r-cran-survival r-cran-class r-cran-nnet r-cran-spatial
>>> r-cran-codetools r-recommended r-base r-base-dev r-base-html r-doc-html
>>> STDERR: E: There were unauthenticated packages and -y was used without
>>> --allow-unauthenticated```
>>>
>>> Any idea on whether there is a way to install `r-base` without using
>>> `--allow-unauthenticated`
>>>
>>> I can provide more information if necessary.
>>>
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> 	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]
>>>
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