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ShadowKyogre

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Conditions for Valid Pacman entry? [SOLVED]

Okay...I have no idea why pacman is giving me this:

error: invalid name for database entry 'magicseteditor-0.3.8'

The folder contents in /var/lib/pacman/local seems fine...so here's the contents of each file

depends

%DEPENDS%
wxgtk

desc

%NAME%
magicseteditor

%VERSION%
0.3.8

%DESC%
Magic Set Editor: Allows you to create your own cards.

%URL%
http://magicseteditor.sourceforge.net/download

%LICENSE%
GPL

%ARCH%
i686

%BUILDDATE%
18446744073709551615

%INSTALLDATE%
1232429699

%PACKAGER%
Unknown Packager

%SIZE%
131406296

I'm sure the files text file of that folder is fine...so what do I need to fix?

Last edited by ShadowKyogre (2009-01-21 02:17:55)

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skottish

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Re: Conditions for Valid Pacman entry? [SOLVED]

I'm not sure if this is the problem, but your package doesn't have the pkgrel information. The %VERSION% line should have <pkgver>-<pkgrel>. You're should read something like:

%VERSION%
0.3.8-1

Check to see if pkgrel is set in your PKGBUILD.

ShadowKyogre

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Re: Conditions for Valid Pacman entry? [SOLVED]

Okay. I fiddled with the folder name and the version code and it does not give that anymore. Plus I didn't use a PKGBUILD to make the package. I made it myself  from their precompiled binaries(probably I should remember to put the pkgrel next time).

Thanks.

Last edited by ShadowKyogre (2009-01-21 02:16:38)

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Re: Conditions for Valid Pacman entry? [SOLVED]

Even when you're installing binaries you should use PKGBUILD. They're actually pretty straight forward to do. It will help you to not pollute your system with random files.