[aur-general] aur upload problems

[Dave Reisner]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 05:37:30PM +0200, Rob Til Freedmen wrote:
> Hi,
> I've tried uploading to the aur (via web) but got an error:
> Error - source tarball may not contain nested subdirectories.
> 
> aurploader just returns with an unspecified error.
> 
> I've looked at the source package and everything looks ok.
> I've tried an older source package uploaded long time ago
> and got the same error.

If you create your tarballs using 'makepkg -S', you shouldn't run into
such problems.