[Rd] tar warnings in R-3.0.2 RC when R is installed by a different (non-root) user

[Dan Tenenbaum]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Prof Brian Ripley" <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
> To: r-devel at 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 ownership (uname) but the uid.  A tarball can
> only
> store uids up to 'nobody' (usually 32767), and certainly larger ones
> cannot be unpacked portably.
> 

Thanks. I've changed the uid of this user and the warnings went away.
Dan


> The warnings did not occur before, but the tarball produced could
> cause
> problems when unpacking with other tools.
> 
> On 23/09/2013 20:55, Dan Tenenbaum wrote:
> > 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 make files
> > * checking for empty or unneeded directories
> > * looking to see if a ‘data/datalist’ file should be added
> > * building ‘anRpackage_1.0.tar.gz’
> > Warning: invalid uid value replaced by that for user 'nobody'
> > Warning: invalid uid value replaced by that for user 'nobody'
> > Warning: invalid uid value replaced by that for user 'nobody'
> > Warning: invalid uid value replaced by that for user 'nobody'
> > Warning: invalid uid value replaced by that for user 'nobody'
> > Warning: invalid uid value replaced by that for user 'nobody'
> > Warning: invalid uid value replaced by that for user 'nobody'
> >
> > One thing to note is that I am logged in as 'pkgbuild' and R was
> > installed by the user 'biocbuild'. I explicitly point to the R
> > that was installed by 'biocbuild' when building the package above.
> > (I used the command "~biocbuild/bbs-2.13-bioc/R/bin/R CMD build
> > anRpackage").
> >
> > There doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the ownership of the
> > files in anRpackage:
> >
> > $ ls -lR anRpackage
> > anRpackage:
> > total 20
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 pkgbuild users 4096 Sep 23 12:42 data
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgbuild users  283 Sep 23 12:42 DESCRIPTION
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 pkgbuild users 4096 Sep 23 12:42 man
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgbuild users   31 Sep 23 12:42 NAMESPACE
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgbuild users  420 Sep 23 12:42 Read-and-delete-me
> >
> > anRpackage/data:
> > total 4
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgbuild users 59 Sep 23 12:42 a.rda
> >
> > anRpackage/man:
> > total 8
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgbuild users 1051 Sep 23 12:42 anRpackage-package.Rd
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 pkgbuild users  503 Sep 23 12:42 a.Rd
> >
> > These warnings did not appear with an earlier version of R-patched
> > (r63824).
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Dan
> >
> >
> >
> >> sessionInfo()
> > R version 3.0.2 RC (2013-09-17 r63944)
> > Platform: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu (64-bit)
> >
> > locale:
> >   [1] LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C
> >   [3] LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_US.UTF-8
> >   [5] LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_US.UTF-8
> >   [7] LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C
> >   [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C
> > [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_US.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C
> >
> > attached base packages:
> > [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods
> >   base
> >
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> >
> 
> 
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