[Distutils] PyPI upload: zip okay, tar fails with "invalid distribution file"

[Ethan Furman]

On 07/01/2013 12:11 PM, Paul Moore wrote:
> On 1 July 2013 19:19, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us <mailto:ethan at stoneleaf.us>> wrote:
>
>     ethan at media:~/source/enum$ python setup.py sdist --formats tar upload
>     running sdist
>     running check
>     reading manifest template 'MANIFEST.in'
>     writing manifest file 'MANIFEST'
>     creating enum34-0.9.1
>     creating enum34-0.9.1/enum
>     creating enum34-0.9.1/enum/doc
>     creating enum34-0.9.1/enum/test
>     making hard links in enum34-0.9.1...
>     hard linking LICENSE -> enum34-0.9.1
>     hard linking README -> enum34-0.9.1
>     hard linking setup.py -> enum34-0.9.1
>     hard linking enum/__init__.py -> enum34-0.9.1/enum
>     hard linking enum/doc/enum.pdf -> enum34-0.9.1/enum/doc
>     hard linking enum/doc/enum.rst -> enum34-0.9.1/enum/doc
>     hard linking enum/test/test_enum.py -> enum34-0.9.1/enum/test
>     Creating tar archive
>     removing 'enum34-0.9.1' (and everything under it)
>     running upload
>     Submitting dist/enum34-0.9.1.tar to http://pypi.python.org/pypi
>     Upload failed (400): invalid distribution file
>     ==============================__==============================__============
>
>     Any ideas?
>
>
> You probably want format gztar rather than tar. I don't think I've ever seen an uncompressed tar on PyPI - they probably
> aren't allowed...

I could've sworn I've used tar before, but at any rate going with gztar did the trick.

Thanks!

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~Ethan~