[Solved] AUR Submission error: "...outside of directory"

Gen2ly · 2012-06-27 03:43:55

I tried to submit a "makepkg --source" file today, and got this curious error:

Error - source tarball may not contain files outside a directory.

I'm not sure what to make of this. I've submitted other PKGBUILDs last week without an occurrence. Here's the contents of the source file:

tar tvf gnome-shell-extension-radeon-power-profile-manager-20120626-1.src.tar.gz 
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2012-06-26 22:09 gnome-shell-extension-radeon-power-profile-manager/
-rw-r--r-- root/root       579 2012-06-17 20:21 gnome-shell-extension-radeon-power-profile-manager/gnome-shell-extension-radeon-power-profile-manager.install
-rw-r--r-- root/root      1127 2012-06-26 22:05 gnome-shell-extension-radeon-power-profile-manager/PKGBUILD

Any ideas?

Last edited by Gen2ly (2012-06-28 11:05:46)

Gen2ly · 2012-06-27 13:58:03

I was thinking about this. Could this be a filename character length issue? It is pretty long.

Trilby · 2012-06-27 14:19:22

For what it's worth that's the first thing that occurred to me. I was about to reply then realized I had nothing to really base that one except the subjective "whoa, that's long". I quickly googled (ok, duck-duck-goed*, but that makes a horrible verb) and didn't find anything establishing such a character limit for the AUR ... though it was a very quick search.

There was a maximum POSIX pathlength of 256 characters ... I really have not kept up with whether that's changed. Your directory name is 60 chars, but perhaps the AUR uploader checks to see that it doesn't contribute too much to a 256 limit. When you figure in the fakeroot and destdir and other elements, this might be the issue.

There's a simple way to test that ...

*edit: perhaps it should be duck-duck-went.

Last edited by Trilby (2012-06-27 14:20:26)

Gen2ly · 2012-06-28 03:41:40

Well I reduced the pkgname from 52 to 33 (gnome-shell-extension-radeon-power-profile-manager to gnome-shell-extension-radeon-ppm) and it worked so it does look like AUR has a pkgname limit size. Appreciate the help Trilby.

Allan · 2012-06-28 05:04:54

I'd file a bug report asking for the limit to be increased.

Gen2ly · 2012-06-28 11:05:28

Done.

https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/30472#comment96204

Last edited by Gen2ly (2012-07-01 11:14:57)

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#1 2012-06-27 03:43:55

[Solved] AUR Submission error: "...outside of directory"

#2 2012-06-27 13:58:03

Re: [Solved] AUR Submission error: "...outside of directory"

#3 2012-06-27 14:19:22

Re: [Solved] AUR Submission error: "...outside of directory"

#4 2012-06-28 03:41:40

Re: [Solved] AUR Submission error: "...outside of directory"

#5 2012-06-28 05:04:54

Re: [Solved] AUR Submission error: "...outside of directory"

#6 2012-06-28 11:05:28

Re: [Solved] AUR Submission error: "...outside of directory"

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