Re: [aur-general] AUR package with prebuilt packages

On 8/12/19 2:33 PM, Paul Finkelshteyn wrote:

On Mon, 12 Aug 2019 14:23:51 -0400 Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote:

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I think you can probably use github pages for this. Github already allows release assets, and there are definitely people putting release assets in github pages, so I don't think this is against the terms of service, and github pages lets you provide a simple html index and file structure however you like.

Just make sure to rebuild and force overwrite the gh-pages branch rather than appending new commits, to make sure the size doesn't get too big due to bloaty binary blobs in git history.

Sounds awful cause it will bloat repo size to insane sizes (built packages are tens of MB) and it's devel version so it may obtain updates several times a week…

OK it looks like there is no sane way to do what I want so maybe I should just leave it as repo-for-myself.

That's exactly why I said you should force-overwrite the gh-pages branch -- that way the total size of the repository is only the size of master (the history of a shellscript and dockerfile) + the tens of MB for the latest packages on gh-pages and *only* the latest packages. git branch -D gh-pages git checkout --orphan gh-pages git reset HEAD -- . git add *.pkg.tar.xz git commit -m "nuke gh-pages and restart branch from scratch with new packages" git push -f origin gh-pages git clone will never be too big. Your existing clone might grow quite big, but git gc --auto should prune the dangling blobs in the background after a while. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User