packing the tarball: "unable to find PKGBUILD"

Wesley · 2007-11-13 02:55:27

hi
i followed the wiki step-by-step but i am unable to pack the tar.gz so that the uploader script recognizes the PKGBUILD inside it.
i tried packing it as mentioned, packing it without a directory in it, packing it with chmod -R nobody:aur (because the files from other packs seems to be like this) and even sending in the pure PKGBUILD file.

Allan · 2007-11-13 03:07:44

I your PKGBUILD is somewhere like /var/abs/local/foo then at /var/abs/local type "tar -czf foo.tar.gz foo". Make sure that the foo directory contains only the files needed for the PKGBUILD to work (i.e. not the source, built package etc). i create a foo-local directories for building my AUR packages.

Cerebral · 2007-11-13 03:09:26

Hm. Make sure the name of your archive and the name of the dir are correct. For example, if you are uploading libfoo, you need this structure:

libfoo.tar.gz
----libfoo/
----libfoo/PKGBUILD
----libfoo/libfoo.install
----libfoo/any-patches-you-need.patch

And make sure pkgname=libfoo in the PKGBUILD.

Wesley · 2007-11-13 15:03:22

the name of the pkg, the tarball and the dir in the tarball are all exactly the same (lowercase "ufoai-svn")
i pack it from $HOME/packages/ufoai-svn/ because i make all my packages there.

Cerebral · 2007-11-13 15:06:01

can you upload the tarball to some webspace? I want to take a look inside and see if I can find anything

Wesley · 2007-11-13 15:38:15

hmm, it works now
the problem was indeed that i forgot -z while packing, didnt knew that this was needed.
i think it would be a nice idea to have this in the packaging wiki

Cerebral · 2007-11-13 15:43:15

Wesley wrote:

hmm, it works now
the problem was indeed that i forgot -z while packing, didnt knew that this was needed.
i think it would be a nice idea to have this in the packaging wiki

Well, the wiki does say to submit a 'tar.gz' file, which isn't created unless you use the -z option. I suppose it couldn't hurt to spell it out for everyone though - added.

Last edited by Cerebral (2007-11-13 15:45:51)

Wesley · 2007-11-13 18:51:47

i thought tar creates the archive in with the syntax choosen by the ending (bz2, gz etc)

Cerebral · 2007-11-13 19:05:05

Nope - I've never heard of it making that decision for you. You have to tell it explicitly.

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#1 2007-11-13 02:55:27

packing the tarball: "unable to find PKGBUILD"

#2 2007-11-13 03:07:44

Re: packing the tarball: "unable to find PKGBUILD"

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