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vtyulb

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Registered: 2013-08-18

Posts: 16

[SOLVED] Where source tarball should be stored?

Hello,

Today I tried to upload printer driver to AUR.
Got an error on git push:

remote: error: maximum blob size (250.00KiB) exceeded
remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master

My package contains a source files in tarball, which size is 351kb,
as I understood you just can't upload so big files to AUR repo.

It leaves me a problem where to upload this tarball. I don't want
to link my package to it's origin files from official manufacturer,
because it's an *.exe file, and it's path can be changed, and at some
point package will be broken.

I can upload needed file to my own ftp, but I think it's not correct (safety?).
All packages I saw referred to official releases or a git repos.

So, is it correct to use own ftp, or is there a standard place for such small files?

Last edited by vtyulb (2017-12-17 22:05:42)

Scimmia

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Registered: 2012-09-01

Posts: 11,559

Re: [SOLVED] Where source tarball should be stored?

I don't want to link my package to it's origin files from official manufacturer

That's exactly what you should do, though.

vtyulb

Member

Registered: 2013-08-18

Posts: 16

Re: [SOLVED] Where source tarball should be stored?

I don't want to link my package to it's origin files from official manufacturer

That's exactly what you should do, though.

Thanks, you solved my dilemma.

Downloading exe file at build stage is not beautiful, but makepkg manages to extract it. It's good that everybody can see, that it's original driver from manufacturer, but I don't know for how long the link will be active.

Anyway, thanks again, I uploaded the package.