[aur-general] aur upload problems

[Rob Til Freedmen]

On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

This isn't news for me... I've done it before, I've done it today.
As I said, this error comes with old src packages as well with newly
created.