On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 22:41:43 -0500, Eli Schwartz wrote: >On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 1:52 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> I wasn't aware of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aur-git/ and I >> agree, it should be available for AUR 4 too. > >Rather than cloning the whole AUR history (lots of unneeded disk >space) I suggest you use the following to pull the last version in the >aur-mirror: > >wget -e robots=off --reject "index.html" -np -r -nH --cut-dirs 3 >pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/plain/{package-name} > >robots=off because otherwise recursive download fails, don't download >the index page, just the files it links to, and cull the extra folders >in the path to the packagedir.
Thank you Eli, good to know a way to save disk space, assumed it's needed and/or wanted. At the moment it's convenient for me to clone it. $ du -sh /var/aur/ 1.7G /var/aur/ Regards, Ralf