[aur-general] Removal package request

Gereon Schomber Gereon_Schomber at arcor.de
Wed Mar 10 17:26:16 CET 2010


> > 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.


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