Re: bundles of packages are not allowed

[Bertrand Roessli]

That was the problem, there was no top directory Mufit/. 
Now the package installs smoothly.

Thanks a lot and a nice day,

Bertrand Roessli


On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 09:09 +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> Okay, that all looks good. Looking at the 'pkg' source code tells me
> that it's a problem with the top-level directory.
> 
> Your package should be a .tar.gz that contains a single directory called
> 'Mufit'. In this directory you should put all your files and
> subdirectories. Is this the case?
> 
> Søren
> 
> tir, 28 07 2009 kl. 08:54 +0200, skrev Bertrand Roessli:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I have this description file
> > 
> > 
> > Name: Mufit
> > Version: 3.4
> > Date: 2009-06-21
> > Author: Bertrand Roessli <address@hidden>
> > Maintainer: Bertrand Roessli
> > Title: Mufit
> > Description: Neutron single-crystal diffraction toolkit
> > Depends: octave (>= 3.0.0)
> > License: GPL version 2 or later
> > 
> > 
> > and this directory structure (that contains subdirectories
> > e.g. /inst/mufit, /inst/src, /inst/vrml)
> > 
> > rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   679 2009-07-02 11:59 WARRANTY   
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli 17983 2009-07-02 11:59 COPYING
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 broessli broessli    75 2009-07-23 11:20 configure  
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli  4035 2009-07-23 11:24 Makefile
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   764 2009-07-23 11:28 INSTALL
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   250 2009-07-23 12:11 DESCRIPTION
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   300 2009-07-28 08:17 NEWS
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   659 2009-07-28 08:19 INDEX
> > 
> > examples:
> > total 48
> > -rw------- 1 broessli broessli 18054 2009-07-02 11:59 nuc.inp
> > -rw------- 1 broessli broessli 12551 2009-07-02 11:59 crys.inp
> > -rw------- 1 broessli broessli 11971 2009-07-20 10:32 mag.inp
> > 
> > src:
> > total 36
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli 17012 2009-07-02 11:59 samin.cc   
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   444 2009-07-02 11:59 embedded.cc
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli  5312 2009-07-03 12:11 __polmat.cc
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   102 2009-07-23 11:25 Makefile
> > 
> > inst:
> > total 12
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 broessli broessli 4096 2009-07-25 16:36 vrml
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 broessli broessli 4096 2009-07-25 16:36 misc
> > drwxr-xr-x 2 broessli broessli 4096 2009-07-27 14:02 mufit
> > 
> > total 724
> > -rw------- 1 broessli broessli  54749 2009-07-02 11:59 mufit.tex
> > -rw------- 1 broessli broessli 133480 2009-07-02 11:59 mufit.pdf
> > -rw------- 1 broessli broessli   6306 2009-07-02 11:59 mufit.log
> > -rw------- 1 broessli broessli  63140 2009-07-02 11:59 mufit.dvi
> > -rw------- 1 broessli broessli    943 2009-07-02 11:59 mufit.aux
> > -rw------- 1 broessli broessli   2866 2009-07-20 07:12 mufit.texi
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   1354 2009-07-20 07:12 info.texi 
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli     89 2009-07-20 07:12 manual.m  
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli  20543 2009-07-21 15:44 annexe.texi
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   3234 2009-07-24 11:53 manual.texi
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli      0 2009-07-24 14:40 manual.ltx 
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   2120 2009-07-24 14:41 introduction.texi
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli  92072 2009-07-24 14:41 manual.dvi
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   1293 2009-07-25 15:46
> > magneticstructures.texi
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   3232 2009-07-25 15:56 fitroutines.texi
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   1130 2009-07-27 14:02 draw.texi
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   4618 2009-07-28 07:51
> > nuclearstructure.texi
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   4696 2009-07-28 08:12 polarimetry.texi
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli  40778 2009-07-28 08:12 Mufit Manual
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli      0 2009-07-28 08:12 manual.vr   
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli      0 2009-07-28 08:12 manual.tp   
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli      0 2009-07-28 08:12 manual.pg   
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli      0 2009-07-28 08:12 manual.ky   
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli   2216 2009-07-28 08:12 manual.fns  
> > -rw-r--r-- 1 broessli broessli    540 2009-07-28 08:12 manual.cps  
> > 
> > Does it mean that it is not allowed to have subdirectories in /inst?
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Bertrand
> > 
> > On Tue, 2009-07-28 at 08:49 +0200, Søren Hauberg wrote:
> > > tir, 28 07 2009 kl. 08:26 +0200, skrev Bertrand Roessli:
> > > > I am trying to make an octave package 
> > > > but I get this error
> > > > 
> > > > "bundles of packages are not allowed" 
> > > > and I cannot guess what it means. 
> > > > 
> > > > Does anybody know? 
> > > 
> > > It's hard to tell from the little information you provided. I'm guessing
> > > that you didn't follow the right directory structure or you didn't
> > > provide a DESCRIPTION file.
> > > 
> > > Søren
> > > 
> > 
>