Shiny app using Reticulate not deploying to shiny.io because of error: utils::tar(... : storing paths of more than 100 bytes is not portable

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I am trying to deploy a Shiny app that is using Reticulate to access a huggingface SentenceTransformers model to undertake a semantic search. I can get the app running locally, however, when trying to deploy it to shiny.io I get the following error:

Downloaded 360 bytes...Error in uploadCloudBundle(client, application$application_id, bundlePath) : 
  Could not upload file.
In addition: There were 50 or more warnings (use warnings() to see the first 50)
> warnings()
Warning messages:
1: In utils::tar(bundlePath, files = NULL, compression = "gzip",  ... :
  storing paths of more than 100 bytes is not portable:
  ‘./my_env/Lib/site-packages/huggingface_hub/inference/_generated/__pycache__/_async_client.cpython-311.pyc’
2: In utils::tar(bundlePath, files = NULL, compression = "gzip",  ... :
  storing paths of more than 100 bytes is not portable:
  ‘./my_env/Lib/site-packages/joblib/externals/loky/backend/__pycache__/_posix_reduction.cpython-311.pyc’

I have pasted only the first two warnings here, but there are 50+ as the error message says! Is there a workaround for this?