On Wed 10 Mar 2010 17:26 +0100, Gereon Schomber wrote: > > > 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.
Hmm. Any ideas on how we could avert this kind of issue?
