[arch-general] Weird makepkg problem

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 11:17:16AM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> Hi.  I'm the maintainer for the todotxt package in the AUR 
> (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=7673).  While I was 
> trying to update the PKGBUILD today, something really peculiar happened.
>
> The todotxt source gets downloaded in a zip file format.  But instead of 
> unzipping the zip file to the src directory, for some reason makepkg is 
> *copying* the zip to the src directory.  Consequently, the PKGBUILD can't 
> find the files it needs and fails.
>
> Anybody know what caused this (it wasn't always this way, as I've been 
> maintaining this package for over a year now) and how to fix it?
>
> TIA,
>
> DR

maybe this?  http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9105