On 24.05.2015 11:07, Nicolas Iooss wrote:

Hello,

I am currently maintaining a Linux kernel with a custom configuration in AUR [1] and when I tried to migrate it to AUR4 today, "git push" failed with:

remote: error: The following error occurred when parsing commit remote: error: 94ed5186e25ac1d459ae13d3ab0fbccc401ff225: remote: error: maximum blob size (100kB) exceeded remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master

Indeed, in base linux package [2], the files config and config.x86_64 are larger than 100 kB (they are approx. 179 kB), so I need some kind of trick to be able to move to AUR4 (e.g. storing the kernel config on GitHub). It may be the reason why no custom kernel has yet moved to AUR4 (I tried to find some from the results of a search with category "kernels" keywords "linux" [3] in AUR4 without any success).

How are maintainers supposed to deal with such packages which are derived from official packages that contains files too big to fit AUR4 requirements?

Lukas is away until June 1st. I only learned about git namespaces yesterday and we didn't have time to talk about them, but I believe they could greatly decrease used space in our setup (currently each repo is stored separately I believe) and therefore increase the limits. Sadly the code uses pygit2 quite a bit and I don't know if it's possible to support namespaces there. I guess for now you should wait until Lukas is back.