[aur-requests] [PRQ#18836] Deletion Request for inkscape-shallow-git

[Eli Schwartz]

On 4/12/20 11:14 AM, Daniel Albers wrote:
> This saves users and gitlab.com a 2.2 GB fetch, which, aside from
> resources, takes a significant amount of time.

The $SRCDEST variable means this will only occur once per user. Future
rebuilds will only git fetch.

Your PKGBUILD deletes the clone every time src/ is deleted, e.g. by
makepkg -C, which means for users who did use $SRCDEST they waste far,
far more resources, both theirs and gitlab's, and spend longer doing it.
That is, in the long run.

Users whose AUR helper clones into /tmp and automatically deletes the
clone afterward, are being generally wasteful and this bites them in the
case of large sources like inkscape. Because they are doing it wrong, a
special PKGBUILD doing shallow clones does reduce their bandwidth
consumption, but that isn't a reason to violate the AUR hosting policy.

> Is there a supported way to use shallow clones?

Speaking with my pacman developer hat on: No, we have rejected this
feature request numerous times. Your pkgver() function is broken because
pkgver functions depend on the full git clone, and yours is instead
reporting falsehoods.

It's a textbook example of why it is forbidden in the first place.

-- 
Eli Schwartz
Bug Wrangler and Trusted User

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