On Wed 10 Mar 2010 10:45 +0100, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: > On 10 March 2010 10:37, Daniel Isenmann <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > >> Datum: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:33:41 -0600 > >> Von: "Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)" <[email protected]> > >> An: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" > >> <[email protected]> > >> Betreff: Re: [aur-general] Removal package request > > > >> On 03/10/10 at 08:46am, Daniel Isenmann wrote: > >> > Am 10.03.2010 08:41, schrieb Lukáš Jirkovský: > >> > >This following package does nothing. Or actually it does – it takes a > >> > >lot of space (1GB). > >> > > > >> > >http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35338 > >> > > > >> > > >> > Done. Totally useless package. > >> Now i'm really curious... what was it? > >> -- > > > > It was a package with an 1GB included "patch" file. But the so called > > "patch" wasn't in text form, it was something in binary form. Maybe we were > > misused as file hoster or somebody just tested something. > > -- > > Sicherer, schneller und einfacher. Die aktuellen Internet-Browser - > > jetzt kostenlos herunterladen! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/atbrowser > > > > 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.
