#! /usr/local/bin/Rscript mailx <- function(subject = "", address, body = character(), cc, bcc, from, replyto, verbose = FALSE) { #if(missing(address)) stop("must specify 'address'") if(any(missing(address) | is.na(address))) stop("must specify 'address'") if(!nzchar(subject)) stop("'subject' is missing") args <- c("-s", shQuote(subject)) env <- character() ## For cc and bcc, use command line options -c and -b: ## -c address ## Send carbon copies to list of users. ## -b address ## Send blind carbon copies to list. List should be a ## comma-separated list of names. if(!missing(cc)) args <- c(args, "-c", shQuote(paste(cc, collapse = ","))) if(!missing(bcc)) args <- c(args, "-b", shQuote(paste(bcc, collapse = ","))) ## Argh. ## We really want to be able to specify the 'From' and 'Reply-to' ## fields in the messages. ## POSIX mailx ## ## has nothing for those. ## BSD mailx ## ## has command line option '-r' for the former, and env var REPLYTO ## for the latter. ## S-nail has command line option ## for the former, and env var replyto (as well as additional ## command line mechanisms) for the latter. ## Hence, for now use '-r' for 'From', and both env vars for ## 'Reply-To'. if(!missing(from)) args <- c(args, "-r", shQuote(from)) ## env <- c(env, sprintf("from=%s", shQuote(from))) if(!missing(replyto)) { env <- c(env, sprintf("replyto=%s", shQuote(replyto))) env <- c(env, sprintf("REPLYTO=%s", shQuote(replyto))) } address <- paste(shQuote(address), collapse = " ") filename <- sprintf("R_post_%s", format(Sys.time(), "%FT%T")) cat(body, file = filename, sep = "\n") ## ## To avoid reading the user's configuration files for general ## purpose use, the man page suggests using ## MAILRC=/dev/null mailx -n ## and create a configuration file for the script. ## if(verbose) message(sprintf("Sending email to %s", address)) ## ## This hard-wires mailx: we may prefer to use s-nail if available, ## or to allow to specify to command line MUA. ## status <- system2("mailx", c(args, address), env = env, stdin = filename, stdout = "", stderr = "") if(status == 0L) unlink(filename) else { message(sprintf("Sending email failed!\nThe unsent msg can be found in file %s.", sQuote(filename))) } invisible() } mailx_from_head_and_body_list <- function(x, verbose = FALSE) { h <- x$head mailx(h$Subject, h$To, body = x$body, from = "Prof Brian Ripley ", cc = h$CC, replyto = h$"Reply-To", verbose = verbose) } ## If we have a package p with problems for which we know that the ## maintainer will not fix these, either implicitly by never following ## up on reminders, or explicitly by telling us so, and the package has ## reverse dependencies, we can either provide NMUs, or need to escalate ## the issue by informing the maintainers of the reverse depends. ## The code below generates the necessary materials. CRAN_package_problem_escalation_message <- function(p, i = TRUE, d = Sys.Date() + 14, recursive = FALSE, collapse = FALSE) { d <- max(Sys.Date() + 14, as.Date("2023-08-09")) a <- available.packages() a <- a[startsWith(a[, "Repository"], getOption("repos")["CRAN"]), ] r <- tools::package_dependencies(p, a, reverse = TRUE, recursive = recursive) if(length(unlist(r)) > 50) stop("too many revdeps") info <- tools:::CRAN_package_maintainers_info(c(p, unlist(r)), collapse = collapse) head <- info$head if(collapse) { head[startsWith(head, "Subject:")] <- sprintf("Subject: CRAN package %s and its reverse dependencies", p) } else { head$Subject <- sprintf("CRAN package %s and its reverse dependencies", p) } body <- c(info$body, "", "We have asked for an update fixing the check problems shown at", sprintf(" ", p), if(i) "with no update from the maintainer thus far." else "and been informed that the maintainer will not be able to fix these.", "", strwrap(paste(sprintf("Thus, package %s is now scheduled for archival on %s,", p, d), "and archiving this will necessitate also archiving its", "CRAN strong reverse dependencies.")), "", "Please negotiate the necessary actions.", "", "The CRAN Team") list(head = head, body = body) } wrapper <- function() { args <- commandArgs(TRUE) if (length(args) != 1L) stop("needs one argument") m <- CRAN_package_problem_escalation_message(args, recursive = TRUE) mailx_from_head_and_body_list(m) } wrapper()