cargo package fails with empty project

[msiemens]

I tried to register a crate name on crates.io by uploading an empty package. This fails with this error message:

$ cargo new git-up
$ cd git-up
$ cargo publish -v
    Updating registry `https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index`
Warning: manifest has no description or license. See http://doc.crates.io/manifest.html#package-metadata for more info.
   Packaging git-up v0.0.1 (file:///home/markus/Coding/git-up)
   Verifying git-up v0.0.1 (file:///home/markus/Coding/git-up)
failed to verify package tarball

Caused by:
  couldn't create file (no such file or directory (No such file or directory); path=/home/markus/Coding/git-up/target/package/git-up-0.0.1/Cargo.lock; mode=truncate; access=write)

Trying to just create a package fails with the same error:

$ cargo package -v
Warning: manifest has no description or license. See http://doc.crates.io/manifest.html#package-metadata for more info.
   Packaging git-up v0.0.1 (file:///home/markus/Coding/git-up)
   Verifying git-up v0.0.1 (file:///home/markus/Coding/git-up)
failed to verify package tarball

Caused by:
  couldn't create file (no such file or directory (No such file or directory); path=/home/markus/Coding/git-up/target/package/git-up-0.0.1/Cargo.lock; mode=truncate; access=write

OS: Fedora 20 (same on Windows 7)
Cargo version: cargo 0.0.1-pre-nightly (b3ce593 2014-11-19 07:12:26 +0000)

[alexcrichton]

Dupe of #797 I think, thanks for the report!

[alexcrichton]

(the fix is to git add . something)