AUR can't build brave browser

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I am using brave browser once in a while which is build from AUR. I am seeing currently an error building it:

Building brave...
==> Making package: brave 1.26.77-1 (Di 20 Jul 2021 21:44:57 CEST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Cloning brave-browser git repo...
Cloning into bare repository '/var/tmp/pamac-build-manolo/brave/brave-browser'...
  -> Cloning chromium git repo...
Cloning into bare repository '/var/tmp/pamac-build-manolo/brave/chromium'...
fatal: write error: No space left on device
fatal: fetch-pack: invalid index-pack output
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading chromium git repo
    Aborting...
Failed to build brave

anyone with the same error, possibly a solution?

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This is the answer.

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haha, sure. Sorry … it’s definitely worth it to read error messages

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Building brave from AUR downloads 22GB of packages since it compiles both brave and chromium from git.
Build brave-bin instead. Its much smaller than building everything from scratch and it doesn’t make a difference compared to building everything from scratch.
Also, not having to download 22GB of files every-time an update rolls out is a plus.

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thx, I’ll give that a try

  1. would it not be helpful to have some sort of explanation like this in the package description?
  2. how would you practically go about adding such info?
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The AUR page for this package has many comments suggesting install of brave-bin instead of building from source

And Brave website only recommends brave-bin for Arch and Manjaro

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