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

[Tony C]

On 03/13/2011 08:22 PM, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 14/03/11 12:20, Tony C wrote:
>> On 03/13/2011 07:16 PM, Dave Reisner wrote:
>>> 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
>>>
>> Here is the build. I really do not see any reason why the build is being
>> rejected, I would have to agree that this is a bogus error.
>>
>
> I can not see why this is being rejected...
>
> Not to sound condescending...   but you are uploading the source
> package (.src.tar.gz) and not the binary (.pkg.tar.xz)?  Brain failure
> happen to us all at times! :D
>
> Allan
Indeed I am uploading the source package containing all necessary files
(i.e PKGBUILD, patches, etc) and not the .pkg.tar.xz binary, which is
why I am scratching my head with this. :)

-- 
Tony
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