On 10/03/2010 08:48 μμ, Loui Chang wrote:
On Wed 10 Mar 2010 17:26 +0100, Gereon Schomber wrote:
When it first appeared (it was yesterday) it was empty PKGBUILD with description "I'm not trollin" and foo.patch which had 256MB. The patch seemed to be an empty file (like dd if=/dev/zero of=file). I thought the uploader will ask for deletion soon but I didn't see anyone asking for deletion of the package so I checked it on the AUR. It was there but the patch had 1GB! So I asked for deletion myself.
I could have sworn we had a file size cap on there. I'll have to look into that. Thanks for the notice.
Well, if it was from /dev/zero, it compresses rather well and won't be affected by a file size limit.
Hmm. Any ideas on how we could avert this kind of issue?
Something like http://serverfault.com/questions/9930/get-extracted-size-from-tgz-before-ext... maybe?