> After all, I am not sure whether we should create an official archive > hosted on aur.archlinux.org or just refer to an "inofficial" archive > like aur-mirror.git. As Doug already mentioned, I am currently on > vacation. I will have to think of that (and possibly implement an > archive) when I am back home. Meanwhile, other opinions are welcome. > > If you plan to redirect broken Arch Wiki links to the archive, please > make sure that it is obvious that these packages are abandoned. They are > likely to break or be out-of-date for months.
It would be nice to have an official archive, some packages do not have a maintainer but still work fine, and even if they break in the future it is better to have a "broken" PKGBUILD to start with than have to start from scratch. Maybe the archive could be at aur3.archive.archlinux.org and have a big warning that packages there are not maintained at all. As for what to provide, I'd say use whatever requires less disk space. I suppose that a way to go back in time to previous versions (as possible with aur-mirror.git) is most probably not needed. -- Mauro Santos