On 09/23/2013 02:53 PM, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
The issue is not the ownership (uname) but the uid. A tarball can only store
uids up to 'nobody' (usually 32767), and certainly larger ones cannot be
unpacked portably.
The many identical warnings can obscure useful messages, e.g., about invalid
- Original Message -
> From: "Prof Brian Ripley"
> To: r-devel@r-project.org
> Sent: Monday, September 23, 2013 2:53:08 PM
> Subject: Re: [Rd] tar warnings in R-3.0.2 RC when R is installed by a
> different (non-root) user
>
> The issue is not the ow
The issue is not the ownership (uname) but the uid. A tarball can only
store uids up to 'nobody' (usually 32767), and certainly larger ones
cannot be unpacked portably.
The warnings did not occur before, but the tarball produced could cause
problems when unpacking with other tools.
On 23/09
Hi,
I created a package as follows:
> a = 1
> package.skeleton()
Then I got the following output when building the package:
* checking for file ‘anRpackage/DESCRIPTION’ ... OK
* preparing ‘anRpackage’:
* checking DESCRIPTION meta-information ... OK
* checking for LF line-endings in source and m
