[aur-general] Metadata from aur3

[Kyle Terrien]

On 11/24/2015 03:21 PM, kaptoxic wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way to retrieve package metadata from aur3 (votes and
> comments)  and migrate them to aur4? There was a question about merging
> comments during the aur3-to-aur4 migration period, but I am wondering if
> that is still possible. If data is still around, perhaps a script could
> be written that extracts the appropriate information and adjusts it for
> aur4. (It seems unfortunate that some of the packages that were migrated
> too late lost all of that metadata.)
> 
> Cheers,
> Ivan

As far as I know, all the metadata was deleted.  (I'm not happy about
this either.)

The PKGBUILDs, however, are archived.  You can fetch a PKGBUILD from
the archive and push it to aur4 if you would like to maintain it.

https://github.com/aur-archive

--Kyle

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