Re: PPA kernel upload

[Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Federico Belvisi <armalite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Did you change the "Section: whatever" in the control file to  
"Section: universe/whatever"? If you did not, do it and retry.

> Hello, this is my first message on this list. I am willing to upload  
>  a patched
> kernel (in fact, the patch at Launchpad #48773) to PPA, but i am missing
> something. I followed the online quick-start-guide at launchpad and I
> successfully uploaded a patched version of a simple package like
> gnome-vfs-obexftp, so the procedure for normal packages is correct   
> and i setup
> everything fine (gnupg keys, lauchpad beta team etc.).
>
> I followed the same guide to upload a kernel. Here are the steps i did:
>
> - apt-get source linux-image-2.6.22-14-386;
>
> - patched the kernel, updated debian/changelog;
>
> - ran debuild -S -sa and signed with the correct key;
>
> - tried to upload with dput linux-xxxxx_source.changes
>
> Here it is the problem. It first uploads the .dsc file correctly, then it
> uploads the orig.tar.gz. It does upload the file, i see lan busy for a while.
> After that (lan stops working), it simply timeouts. No messages,   
> nothing shown,
> even with dput -d, process is left running and nothing new happens.   
> I waited a
> couple of hours (maybe process is slow since kernel source is quite big) but
> nothing changed. I don't know what is blocking dput, since it has to  
>  upload also
> the diff.gz file.
>
> I tried also with debuild -S, but upload was rejected because of the lack of
> orig.tar.gz as expected. I had to increase ~ppa1 to ~ppa2 in order to give
> another upload (dput complained that ppa1 was already uploaded, even  
>  if it was
> rejected by launchpad).
>
> Has anybody some hints on how to upload a patched kernel?
>
> Thank you
>
>
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