{"rid":"storage/aur","card":{"rid":"storage/aur","eid":"archlinux","topic":"storage","slug":"aur","provider":"AUR (Arch User Repository)","url":"https://aur.archlinux.org","domain":"archlinux.org","category":"registry","tier":null,"verdict":"fails-quota","vorder":6,"grp":"rejected","confidence":"reported","binding":"per-object-cap","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"defaulted","needs_card":null,"needs_phone":null,"needs_id":null,"needs_institution":null,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":"ssh,git,rclone","egress_metered":0,"per_object_bytes":256000,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"inherited","checked_on":"2026-10-21","stale_on":"2026-11-04","n_evidence":3,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"Not a storage candidate at all: the AUR enforces a hard maximum blob size of 250 KiB per git object. The git hook rejects the push: 'remote: error: maximum b...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":6},"record":{"topic":"storage","slug":"aur","provider":"AUR (Arch User Repository)","url":"https://aur.archlinux.org","category":"registry","free_tier":{"stated":"Not a storage candidate at all: the AUR enforces a hard maximum blob size of 250 KiB per git object. The git hook rejects the push: 'remote: error: maximum blob size (250.00KiB) exceeded / remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master'. Config files around 250.8 KiB already trip it.","unit":"mixed","metered_on":"stored-bytes","source_url":"https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68997","read_on":"2026-10-21","notes":null},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"per-object-cap: 250 KiB","bytes":256000,"source_url":"https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68997","notes":"not stated"},"retention":{"stated":"per-object-cap: 250 KiB (hard, server-side git hook). retention: indefinite for packages","source_url":"https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68997","notes":"not stated"},"egress":{"terms":"Free (plain git over SSH/HTTPS), but irrelevant given the cap.","metered":false},"interface":["ssh","git","rclone"],"interface_detail":"git","tooling":"git over ssh://aur.archlinux.org/<pkg>.git; AUR RPC v5 at /rpc/. No rclone backend (git is the interface).","chaining":"unlimited AUR packages x 250 KiB = useless for bulk. Content must be PKGBUILD + patches; large sources are fetched at build time by URL, never stored.","limits":[{"kind":"per-object-cap","value":"per-object-cap: 250 KiB","source":"https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68997"}],"limits_note":"per-object-cap: 250 KiB (hard, server-side git hook). retention: indefinite for packages. request-rate: git push over ssh, per-key.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":null,"country":null},"reliability_note":"Cleanest possible dead end: a hard 250 KiB blob limit enforced by a git hook. Any 'AUR as storage' idea dies here. Not covered in round 1.","confidence":"reported","confidence_note":"One page read moves it to documented.","evidence":[{"url":"https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/68997","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'remote: error: maximum blob size (250.00KiB) exceeded' on a 250.8 KiB config file; maintainer confirms the limit is intentional"},{"url":"https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-August/031470.html","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"'[aur-general] max blob size exceeded'"},{"url":"https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg=google-chrome","date":"2026-10-21","proved":"probe: GET -> 200, 679 bytes (RPC v5 live; metadata only, no blob path)"}],"verdict":"fails-quota","verified_at":"2026-10-21T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Not a storage candidate at all: the AUR enforces a hard maximum blob size of 250 KiB per git object. The git hook rejects the push: 'remote: error: maximum blob size (250.00KiB) exceeded / remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master'. Config files around 250.8 KiB already trip it.","extras":{"unit_note":"free_tier.unit is 'mixed' because the headline is denominated in MiB or KiB, which the schema enum does not carry; the verbatim free_tier.stated keeps the true unit. See the storage-dossier handover.","dead_end":{"failure_class":"quota","why":"Not a storage candidate at all: the AUR enforces a hard maximum blob size of 250 KiB per git object. The git hook rejects the push: 'remote: error: maximum blob size (250.00KiB) exceeded / remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master'. Config files around 250.8 KiB already trip it.","retry_when":null,"first_recorded":"2026-10-21"}},"binding":"per-object-cap","binding_note":"the per-object cap sets the shard size and therefore the object count; it bounds the total more tightly than any headline quota"},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":250,"unit":"KiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.limits[0].value","kind":"limit:per-object-cap","num":250,"unit":"KiB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.extras.dead_end.retry_when","process"],["$.free_tier.notes","process"],["$.identity_cost.detail","defaulted"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","not-extracted"],["$.retention.notes","not-extracted"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}