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[Martin Pool <mbp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 9 March 2012 07:37, Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I can't seem to get launchpad dependencies installed after my upgrade
> to Precise. Can anyone help me sort out what's up or I can get going
> again?
>
> Here's the last bit of output from running rocketfuel-setup:
>
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr/ppa/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-amd64/Packages
>  404  Not Found
>
> W: Failed to fetch
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/bzr/ppa/ubuntu/dists/precise/main/binary-i386/Packages
>  404  Not Found
>

This is (imo) a bug in Launchpad, that the metadata files for a ppa
are 404 until you upload to that distro series:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/950433

I'm going to kludge around it now by copying a package into the bzr precise ppa.

-- 
Martin