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[R-pkg-devel] Why .Rbuildignore doesn't ignore?

FYI, and in case others wonder or search for this later, the warnings:

Warning: invalid uid value replaced by that for user 'nobody'
Warning: invalid gid value replaced by that for user 'nobody'

are harmless and has nothing to do with your problem reported here.
It happens because on the system you're running your user account has
a user ID (UID) and a group ID (GID) that are > 32767, e.g.

$ id
uid=34002(alice) gid=34001(alicelab)

Since 'R CMD build' aims at building a *.tar.gz file that works also
only older systems with older tar software that only supports UID/GID
<= 32767, it created the *.tar.gz file with mockup UID=32767,
GID=32767 (called 'nobody') instead of your actual UID/GID.

/Henrik
On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 11:59 AM Duncan Murdoch <murdoch.duncan at gmail.com> wrote: