[aur-general] AUR 1.8.1 - Can No Longer Upload Packages

[Dave Reisner]

On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 07:11:47PM -0700, Tony C wrote:
> On 03/13/2011 06:58 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 06:47:53PM -0700, Tony C wrote:
> >> Prior to AUR 1.8.1 being deployed, I could upload a *.tar.gz containing
> >> my PKGBUILD to AUR. Now with AUR 1.8.1, here I am trying to upload an
> >> updated PKGBUILD which I have verified does exist within my *.tar.gz -
> >> yet the AUR web-interface refuses to acknowledge that my PKGBUILD exists
> >> as I get stumped with *"**Error trying to unpack upload - PKGBUILD does
> >> not exist."
> >>
> >> *Does this sound like a possible bug with AUR 1.8.1? I would like to
> >> think I have been quite diligent with the whole AUR process, but as I
> >> said this little road block has got me stumped with AUR 1.8.1
> >> -- 
> >> Tony
> > I haven't had any problems posting PKGBUILDs since 1.8.1. There were,
> > however, some new rules added to reject malformed sourceballs. Are you
> > using makepkg --source to build your tarball for upload?
> >
> > dave
> I have tried with 'makepkg --source', and also manually creating my
> tarball with 'tar cvzf package.tar.gz PKGBUILD' verifying the PKGBUILD
> exists inside the tarball with 'tar tf' yet AUR still complains with the
> same error with both attempts. Really strange.
> -- 
> Tony

Would be helpful if you could post the problematic PKGBUILD. It may be
that the AUR is giving you a bogus error. I just tried uploading a few
minutes ago and had no issues.

dave