[arch-general] pkgbuild of tightvnc doesn't produce and installable package?

[Allan McRae]

David C. Rankin wrote:
> Guys,
>
> I'm obviously doing something wrong. I set up abs, then copied the tightvnc 
> package to my build dir, then I built it with makepkg -s (built clean - no 
> errors), then I went to install it and it bombed.
>
> 03:24 dcrgx2:~/arch/abs/tightvnc> sudo pacman -U 
> tightvnc-1.3.10_unixsrc.tar.bz2
> loading package data...
> error: missing package metadata in tightvnc-1.3.10_unixsrc.tar.bz2
> error: 'tightvnc-1.3.10_unixsrc.tar.bz2': invalid or corrupted package
>
> What metadata am I missing? What did I do wrong?
>   

You are trying to install the source code and not the package.  Look for 
a file ending in -pkg.tar.gz.

Allan