Re: [aur-general] Can't update my own PKGBUILD, where to find errors?

On Fri, 23 Jan 2015 at 00:02:02, Doug Newgard wrote:

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 23:24:24 +0100 Sven Fischer wrote:

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Hello everybody,

trying to update small fixes to the eibd package, AUR upload always responses to me with "error: failed to upload bcusdk-0.0.5-5.src.tar.gz: You are not allowed to overwrite the eibd package.", although I own the package. I am quite a AUR NOOB, but trying to find a hint what could be wrong led me to nothing. Wouldn't it be possible to respond with an error that tells me WHY I am unable to upload (missing permission, wrong version etc....)?

Regards, Sven

Because you're trying to overwrite one pkgbase (eibd) with a different one (bcusdk).

Let me elaborate just a bit: There currently isn't a bcusdk package base in the AUR, so a new package base is created upon package submission. That new package base contains a package eibd which is already part of the package base eibd, though. Since a package base cannot contain a package that is already provided by another one, you receive that strange error message. Hope that clarifies it a bit. Regards, Lukas