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[ctrlcctrlv]

i'm sorry, i pushed without looking at the AUR comments as the package was super broken. i have the maintainer role of blender-git, and i pushed something perhaps controversial. please see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/blender-git#comment-906706

Hello friends,

I, the old maintainer of this package, Fred Brennan, am back.

@bartus did a good job here and I don't mind if he keeps pushing but due to the broken state the package was in took it upon myself.

I want to make y'all aware of a major change.

Please see https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=blender-git&id=951939b42a00cee9eaf19654d0163703e6476ea1

This package will now PROMPT you to change your VCSCLIENTS to tell git NOT to pull the whole repo. I'd like to justify this.

This package is enormous. Many use AUR helpers. The Blender Git server was craawling for me. I've used Arch since age 16, I understand this is not how we do things, and so I have done my very best to make it painless.

To pull a whole Git repository and never be prompted, supply VCSCLIENTS_IGNORE_BLENDER_GIT_AUR=y in your environment.

I felt this breaking change was fair as the package was broken for months.

HOWEVER, I am not deaf to community concerns. If you hate this, tell me, and I will revert the commit. Thanks.

i didn't mean to go over anyone's head. if any recent commiter wants that gone i'll do it until we can discuss it as a group.

@bartoszek @stativ @dexterlb

[ctrlcctrlv]

i only pushed that so urgently as i thought i might really bring the server down entirely if i tried to push a normal fix commit. i was getting only around 100KB/s.

[ctrlcctrlv]

i conferred with @lazydodo, a Blender core member, on their chat, and we found a solution that isn't so drastic. using the github mirror, which is updated very close to the projects.blender.org, which he confirmed has known issues and is unstable. i am pushing another commit now.

[dexterlb]

I think the github mirror solution will work for now.

Maybe we can leave the suggestion to use --depth 1, but I think that using read -p is a bit too invasive and may break some people's workflows. It could just be a suggestion message instead?

[ctrlcctrlv]

hi @dexterlb

i reverted the change on the AUR. i don't think a suggestion is necessary as i was only doing it because i was worried the AUR helpers of the world would DDoS blender.

people can look into --depth flag at their leisure now that we've solved the main problem, the slow upstream dev serverr. :)

[ctrlcctrlv]

@bartoszek just sent some messages on the AUR which i relpied to. if he can add me as a maintainer of this repo i'll start pushing my changes here too.

i rely on this package , i just had a period where i wasn't on Arch much due to personal issues but am back for the foreseeable future.

[bartoszek]

@ctrlcctrlv I'm all for blender GitHub mirror, the main development server just hangs for minutes on git fetch. About popup prompts during build: I consider those a crime against the humanity 🙄 an yaourt evil spawn. Just use makepkg key=var to alter the PKGBUILD behavior it's much cleaner.

[ctrlcctrlv]

We totally agree on that, I never would have left that longterm. Gonna close this out as I was able to work it out with the upstream. :-)

AUR is diverging significantly from this repo though so remember to add me here when you get a chance.