[Solved] "source tarball may not contain nested subdirectories"

Question

Hey guys,
I'm trying to upload (my first!) package to the AUR, however I'm getting the error "Error - source tarball may not contain nested subdirectories."
I've created the package using `makepkg --source`, it's just a single PKGBUILD file.
Running tar tvf looks fine:
$ tar tvf setcolors-git-0.0.0-1.src.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2013-08-17 08:25 setcolors-git/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 685 2013-08-17 07:19 setcolors-git/PKGBUILD
I searched around, but it looks like only a few people had this issue, and it was due to SELinx (which I'm not using).
I must be missing something really simple and I'm sure I'll feel dumb.
Here's the tarball in question.
Last edited by EvanPurkhiser (2013-08-19 01:46:07)

Answer 1

Ichimonji10 wrote:
I'm also getting this error. The exact error thrown is:
Error - source tarball may not contain nested subdirectories.
I'm trying to submit this PKGBUILD: https://github.com/Ichimonji10/PKGBUILD … ybeans-git
And here's the contents of my package:
[ichimonji10@hardhack:tmp]$ ls
vim-jellybeans-git-v1.5.25.gc173b85-1.src.tar.gz
[ichimonji10@hardhack:tmp]$ tar tfv vim-jellybeans-git-v1.5.25.gc173b85-1.src.tar.gz
drwxr-xr-x root/root 0 2013-08-17 11:55 vim-jellybeans-git/
-rw-r--r-- root/root 1094 2013-08-17 09:08 vim-jellybeans-git/LICENSE.txt
-rw-r--r-- root/root 1022 2013-08-17 11:39 vim-jellybeans-git/PKGBUILD
Ahhh I get that too, your tar isn't the problem (I think), like mr. developer said, it's probably PHP5.5 that's the problem, it's the site.
My theory is that PHP5.5 probably upgraded their parsing stuffs and the site's code just isn't compatible yet.