Unable to submit a package to AUR

roy_hu · 2010-03-04 05:40:10

I'm already maintaining 4 packages on AUR, but today when I was submitting a 5th package, all I got was this unhelpful error message:

Use `makepkg --source` to generate source packages for submission!
Error - No file uploaded

If you'd like to help out, the source files are located at http://github.com/wh5a/arch/tree/master/archpkg/otags/

Allan · 2010-03-04 05:43:02

So just to check.... you did use "makepkg --source" to generate the tarball you submitted?

roy_hu · 2010-03-04 07:28:14

Yes...

Runiq · 2010-03-04 07:37:47

Did you perhaps do it like I did and changed SRCEXT to '.tar.xz' in your /etc/makepkg.conf?

roy_hu · 2010-03-04 08:09:33

Runiq wrote:

Did you perhaps do it like I did and changed SRCEXT to '.tar.xz' in your /etc/makepkg.conf?

No, I didn't

stefanwilkens · 2010-03-04 10:45:04

is the file you're trying to upload readable by your user?

ngoonee · 2010-03-04 11:01:29

Runiq wrote:

Did you perhaps do it like I did and changed SRCEXT to '.tar.xz' in your /etc/makepkg.conf?

AUR doesn't accept those?

Runiq · 2010-03-04 11:15:17

Nope, not yet, apparently. (Pierre said so as well in the German forum.)

roy_hu · 2010-03-04 15:08:52

stefanwilkens wrote:

is the file you're trying to upload readable by your user?

Yes.

Runiq · 2010-03-04 15:52:09

I uploaded and orphaned the package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35200

Of course, there's still your original problem. I just d/l'ed the two files (PKGBUILD and patch), used makepkg --source, renamed the src.tar.gz file to otags.tar.gz and uploading worked without a hitch, so no problem there at all…

roy_hu · 2010-03-04 19:29:31

Runiq wrote:

I uploaded and orphaned the package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35200
Of course, there's still your original problem. I just d/l'ed the two files (PKGBUILD and patch), used makepkg --source, renamed the src.tar.gz file to otags.tar.gz and uploading worked without a hitch, so no problem there at all…

Thanks. Do I have to rename the file? I don't remember I ever did that...

Runiq · 2010-03-04 19:43:30

roy_hu wrote:

Runiq wrote:
I uploaded and orphaned the package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35200
Of course, there's still your original problem. I just d/l'ed the two files (PKGBUILD and patch), used makepkg --source, renamed the src.tar.gz file to otags.tar.gz and uploading worked without a hitch, so no problem there at all…
Thanks. Do I have to rename the file? I don't remember I ever did that...

I dunno, but whenever I download a package from the AUR, it's always called $pkgname.tar.gz, that's why I usually do it.

Last edited by Runiq (2010-03-04 19:48:45)

lolilolicon · 2010-03-04 20:03:57

Nah, naming ain't no issue here.
I also, for some reason, had some problem using the web upload interface sometimes, while doing it from CLI has not for once failed.
What I do, for example, to upload a pkg.src.tar.gz to AUR is:

$ makepkg --source
$ dzlad -p pkg.src.tar.gz@editors:"Some Comment." -u username:password

This has never failed me. If you don't like ruby, there's also slurpy which is in python, among others; or roll your own using curl...

Stefan Husmann · 2010-03-06 12:32:43

Where does the dzlad program come from?

lolilolicon · 2010-03-06 14:05:28

Stefan Husmann wrote:

Where does the dzlad program come from?

I wrote it as a practice in ruby. It's been in AUR for a month: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33881.
It doesn't do much; if anyone should be interested to try, do check out --help and --examples

Last edited by lolilolicon (2010-03-06 14:06:36)

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#1 2010-03-04 05:40:10

Unable to submit a package to AUR

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Re: Unable to submit a package to AUR

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