terra build issue on RockyLinux 9

[michaelmayer2]

On RockyLinux 9, I get

pak::pkg_sysreqs("terra")
✔ Loading metadata database ... done
── Install scripts ───────────────────────────────────────────── Rockylinux 9 ──
dnf install -y dnf-plugins-core
dnf config-manager --set-enabled crb
dnf install -y epel-release
dnf install -y epel-release
dnf install -y epel-release
dnf install -y gdal-devel gdal geos-devel proj-devel sqlite-devel

── Packages and their system dependencies ──────────────────────────────────────
terra – gdal, gdal-devel, geos-devel, proj-devel, sqlite-devel

If I try to install terra it fails due to missing netcdf-devel package.

On https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/terra/index.html "netcdf" is mentioned and if my understanding is correct, https://github.com/rstudio/r-system-requirements/blob/main/rules/netcdf4.json should trigger netcdf-devel as a system requirement, no ?

[glin]

Yes, good point. I'm not sure why it's not there already, but likely it was that netcdf wasn't available yet when we added the initial set of RHEL 9 rules. Looks like it's now in EPEL. Feel free to open a PR, or otherwise I can get to this soon.

[michaelmayer2]

#212 contains a fix for this specific RockyLinux 9 issue.