[aur-general] old tarball recovery?

Callan Barrett wizzomafizzo at gmail.com
Tue Oct 14 06:58:47 EDT 2008


On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Mads Michelsen <chochem at gmail.com> wrote:
> Feeling incredibly daft about this...
>
> I adjusted the PKGBUILD for a module i maintain and uploaded it
> straight away after buildng succesfully. It thus overwrote the old
> tarball which contained the PKGBUILD plus a patch and an install
> script. In a stroke of brilliance I then proceeded to delete my local
> build files and try the new PKGBUILD via yaourt.... Needless to say it
> doesn't work. This is about as stupid as it gets. I'm having photorec
> trying to recover the local files but I'm not particularly hopeful. Any
> chance of recovery on the server? The package is fsaa1655g.
>
> - Chochem
>

There are no backups or anything made of AUR packages and as soon as
you upload a package the entire directory on the server gets blown
away to make way for the new one. I don't think you have a very good
chance of recovery outside of your own hard drive.

-- 
Callan Barrett



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