Unable to create PKGBUILD successfully

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Hi,
This is the first time I am creating package and would like to maintain this package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mult … setlang=en as I am the author of upstraem package. Here is the git code https://github.com/mbusb/multibootusb . I have read and tried to create PKGBUILD using https://projects.archlinux.org/abs.git/ … thon.proto . However, It does not seems to create any package at all. Here is the contenet of my PKGBUILD:-
# Contributor: Jonas Heinrich <[email protected]>
# Maintainer: sundar_ima <[email protected]>
pkgname=multibootusb
pkgver=7.1.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Boot multiple live Linux distros from a usb flash drive"
arch=('any')
url="http://multibootusb.org"
license=('gpl3')
depends=('python-pyqt4' 'python2-psutil' 'mtools')
sha512sums=('81a3680b42d49107ff8a05e7bdb856d2c75f24173cc836920b83deba20e321acc09fa17605f88cce10a09f23db242fe50cdee3e3d04b55ed4047683a7b69555e')
#makepkgopt = strip
#makepkgopt = docs
#makepkgopt = libtool
#makepkgopt = emptydirs
#makepkgopt = zipman
#makepkgopt = purge
#makepkgopt = !upx
source=("http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/$pkgname/${pkgver}/Source/$pkgname-${pkgver}.tar.gz")
package () {
cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
python2.7 setup.py install --root="$pkgdir/" --optimize=1
# vim:set ts=4 sw=4 et:
When I tried to check PKGBUILD using namcap, it does not produce error at all. Any help to create successful PKGBUILD is appriciated.
Thanks in advance.
Last edited by sundar_ima (2014-04-28 00:08:35)

Answer 1

@ Trilby
I have modified the first post to use code. multibootusb is simmilar to unetbootin. However, many distros can be installed/ uninstalled. The famous linux version of YUMI by pendrivelinux.com is a fork of multibootusb. I hope you understand what my software does.
There seems to be a difference between "makepkg" and "makepkg -S". Package has been succesfully created using "makepkg". However, it does not when I used "makepkg -S". Here is the out put I got when I used "makepkg -S"
[sundar@arch arch]$ makepkg -S
==> Making package: multibootusb 7.1.0-1 (Mon Apr 28 05:41:38 IST 2014)
==> Retrieving sources...
-> Downloading multibootusb-7.1.0.tar.gz...
% Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current
Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:01 --:--:-- 0
100 662k 100 662k 0 0 73219 0 0:00:09 0:00:09 --:--:-- 56066
==> Validating source files with sha512sums...
multibootusb-7.1.0.tar.gz ... Passed
==> Entering fakeroot environment...
==> Creating source package...
-> Adding PKGBUILD...
-> Compressing source package...
==> Leaving fakeroot environment.
==> Source package created: multibootusb (Mon Apr 28 05:41:48 IST 2014)
[sundar@arch arch]$ ls
multibootusb-7.1.0-1.src.tar.gz multibootusb-7.1.0.tar.gz PKGBUILD src
But the wiki says that "makepkg -S" is used  "To build the package and install needed dependencies automatically" .
Regarding namcap warning, I have kept additional data required by multibootusb under python's system prefix. I had to do this as different distro uses different path for system prefix. Any suggestion to remove this warning is appriciated. Also this warning by namcap:-
multibootusb W: Dependency included and not needed ('python-pyqt4')
multibootusb W: Dependency included and not needed ('python2-psutil')
multibootusb W: Dependency included and not needed ('mtools')
does not seems to be true. These pacakages are must to run multibootusb.
Last edited by sundar_ima (2014-04-28 00:27:28)