[aur-general] AUR4 feature request

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 22:41:43 -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote:
>On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> I wasn't aware of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aur-git/ and I
>> agree, it should be available for AUR 4 too.
>
>Rather than cloning the whole AUR history (lots of unneeded disk
>space) I suggest you use the following to pull the last version in the
>aur-mirror:
>
>wget -e robots=off --reject "index.html" -np -r -nH --cut-dirs 3
>pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/{package-name}
>
>robots=off because otherwise recursive download fails, don't download
>the index page, just the files it links to, and cull the extra folders
>in the path to the packagedir.

Thank you Eli,

good to know a way to save disk space, assumed it's needed and/or
wanted.

At the moment it's convenient for me to clone it.

$ du -sh /var/aur/
1.7G	/var/aur/

Regards,
Ralf