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W.F.Cody

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From: Ghent

Registered: 2010-11-18

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[SOLVED] AUR submission problems

Dear all

I have lately had a weird issue with uploading a pkgbuild.
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45558

AUR complains with the following error:

Error - source tarball may not contain nested subdirectories.

If I look at the .src.tar.gz (generated by makepkg --source), it looks like it always has so I really do not see what the problem is.

Last edited by W.F.Cody (2011-06-08 10:44:02)

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JokerBoy

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Registered: 2009-09-24

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR submission problems

can we see the src tarball you're trying to upload too?

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W.F.Cody

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From: Ghent

Registered: 2010-11-18

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR submission problems

can we see the src tarball you're trying to upload too?

how/where should I upload that?

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tomk

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR submission problems

Any file hosting site e.g. ompldr.org .

W.F.Cody

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From: Ghent

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR submission problems

Any file hosting site e.g. ompldr.org .

Thanks! I did not know of that one.

Here is a download link:

http://ompldr.org/vOHVvZw

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W.F.Cody

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR submission problems

Any ideas why uploading does not work? Does nobody else have similar issues?

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roelsb

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR submission problems

-snip-
Sorry wasn't paying attention

Last edited by roelsb (2011-06-07 15:44:07)

falconindy

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Registered: 2009-10-22

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR submission problems

This file is totally insane. Are you using selinux?

$ ex open64-binary-4.2.4-1.src.tar.gz 
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `LIBARCHIVE.xattr.security.selinux'
open64-binary/
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.dev'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.ino'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `SCHILY.nlink'
tar: Ignoring unknown extended header keyword `LIBARCHIVE.xattr.security.selinux'
open64-binary/PKGBUILD

ex is just a function that, in this case, calls GNU tar.

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W.F.Cody

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR submission problems

This file is totally insane. Are you using selinux?

Ah! So that's it!

I had my /home partition mounted by a temporary Fedora install recently due to some problems and I urgently needed a working computer at that moment. There is indeed some sort of weird PaxHeader sub directory formed (why did I not see that one before?). When I initially tried to resubmit some packages I was working from a chroot and did not see those PaxHeader things. Now I am back at a sane Arch install and I see them...

If anyone knows how to disable whatever magic is being done, I am all ears

EDIT:
After some googling I have figured out that there are magic invisible selinux stuff (xattr) hidden in the file system. Somehow I am not able to disable them though. There should be a --no-xattr option to tar but if I set alias tar="tar --no-xattr" I still get that weird PaxHeader subfolder.

I have also found that others have had similar issues before in various AURs so I am not the first
I promise to update the wiki whenever this crap is solved.

EDIT2: SOLVED

I managed to find a way to get rid of the selinux xattr in my /home by using the instructions found here:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermai … 87990.html

(/home rather than / in my case)

Since this seems to happen from time to time -where should I write up this in the wiki? Under SELINUX or PKGBUILD?

EDIT3: a warning for the unwary - make sure to do a fsck after cleaning out the xattr (will be added to the wiki too)

Last edited by W.F.Cody (2011-06-08 16:28:59)

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falconindy

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR submission problems

Seems more fitting of the selinux page, as this isn't something you'd normally encounter. Glad I was able to give you the push you needed to get this resolved.

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