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Slikkie

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What's up with AUR?

Some days ago I was unable to submit a package (gxmms2 0.7.0) to AUR. It was saying something like: Error uploading file, please try again. Trying again didn't work.
Wen I upload the same package now, I see the error: Error trying to unpack upload - PKGBUILD does not exist, while the contentas of my package are:

[johan@slikkie aur]$ tar -tvvf "gxmms2 0.7.0-1.tar.gz" 
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2007-12-03 17:30 gxmms2/
-rw-r--r-- johan/users     247 2007-12-03 17:05 gxmms2/gxmms2.desktop
-rw-r--r-- johan/users     722 2007-12-03 17:08 gxmms2/PKGBUILD

Can someone tell me why this don't work? gxmms2 really needs a new version

pressh

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Registered: 2005-08-14

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Re: What's up with AUR?

the error uploading file, please try again error was an AUR bug, it is fixed now.

About your current error, can you upload your package somewhere so I can have a look at it.

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: What's up with AUR?

Guessing, those file permissions might need to be:  -rw-r--r-- root/root

kumico

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Re: What's up with AUR?

i think there should exist no version info in the filename , the filename.tar.gz should match that of PKGBUILD[pkgname=filename] also

pressh

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Registered: 2005-08-14

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Re: What's up with AUR?

i think there should exist no version info in the filename , the filename.tar.gz should match that of PKGBUILD[pkgname=filename] also

yes you are right.

wonder why I looked over such an obvious thing

Slikkie

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Re: What's up with AUR?

i think there should exist no version info in the filename , the filename.tar.gz should match that of PKGBUILD[pkgname=filename] also

OK, i think that wasn't necessary anymore because it make no sense at the first error

But the error isn't gone, so I uploaded my package at http://home.kliksafe.nl/m.vanderslikke/ … ms2.tar.gz

brebs

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: What's up with AUR?

"license" is in a wrong format. Run namcap on the tarball and PKGBUILD.

Edit:  makedepends isn't necessary if it's just a duplicate of depends, AFAIK.

No point in having a blank install= line - remove it.

Put the lines in the right order - read packaging standards.

Last edited by brebs (2007-12-07 15:26:58)

dolby

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Re: What's up with AUR?

Guessing, those file permissions might need to be:  -rw-r--r-- root/root

no this is wrong. permissions have nothing to do with it.

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Slikkie

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Re: What's up with AUR?

"license" is in a wrong format. Run namcap on the tarball and PKGBUILD.

Edit:  makedepends isn't necessary if it's just a duplicate of depends, AFAIK.

No point in having a blank install= line - remove it.

Put the lines in the right order - read packaging standards.

Ok I updated PKGBUILD - didn't work

I doubt if AUR checks the PKGBUILD for such errors, I think the problem is the extracting itself.

Last edited by Slikkie (2007-12-07 15:43:55)

cactus

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Re: What's up with AUR?

lol.
I looked on the server, and it appears you made a tar archive, left off the gz flag, but named the file .gz anyway.

when you create the archive, use...
tar -czvf gxmms2.tar.gz gxmms2

instead of what you must have done..
tar -cvf gxmms2.tar.gz gxmms2

note the z flag in the first example..

$ file unsupported/gxmms2/gxmms2.tar.gz
unsupported/gxmms2/gxmms2.tar.gz: POSIX tar archive (GNU)

Also..your first upload had a space in the tarball name, as well as the version. That isn't good either. Try to avoid spaces.

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brebs

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Re: What's up with AUR?

A little "createpkg" script I use is:

#!/bin/bash

cd /var/abs/local/
rm -f ${1}.tar.gz
fl=$(ls ${1}/*.{patch,diff,desktop,install} 2>/dev/null)
tar -zcvvf ${1}.tar.gz ${1}/PKGBUILD ${fl}

Slikkie

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Re: What's up with AUR?

Ok thanks! I'm not that good in command line work, so I took a look in the manpage and used some good-looking arguments