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Douglas Gemignani wrote:

<snip>

> I packed everything under folders, then run tar and .bgz, I got my
> package-1.0.0-1.tar.bgz, I did the setup.hint file, and the setup.exe

<snip>

> I hope I can find some help here! I'm using 7zip to compress.

That could be your problem.  'setup.exe' expects bzip2 compressed
files.  If you're not creating those, then 'setup.exe' won't be able
to unpack your package.  If you're already using 'tar', you may as
well let it do the compression for you (i.e. -j).  There's no need
for another tool or step.

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