Re: PPA kernel upload

["Celso Providelo" <celso.providelo@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 12, 2007 9:30 AM, Federico Belvisi <armalite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

There were a bunch of incomplete upload sessions this morning around
12:00 & 13:00 (GMT), they lack changesfile, some of them were yours.

{{{
4       upload-20071112-122740-004442/~armalite/ubuntu/linux-source-2.6.22_2.6.22-14.46~ppa2.dsc
8       upload-20071112-122740-004442/~armalite/ubuntu
12      upload-20071112-122740-004442/~armalite
16      upload-20071112-122740-004442
4       upload-20071112-122740-004442.distro
4       upload-20071112-132541-004446/~armalite/ubuntu/linux-source-2.6.22_2.6.22-14.46~ppa2.dsc
55644   upload-20071112-132541-004446/~armalite/ubuntu/linux-source-2.6.22_2.6.22.orig.tar.gz
55652   upload-20071112-132541-004446/~armalite/ubuntu
55656   upload-20071112-132541-004446/~armalite
55660   upload-20071112-132541-004446
4       upload-20071112-132541-004446.distro
}}}

It seems that your link is dieing while pushing the huge orig.tar.gz file.

I'd suggest you to upload from somewhere else with more reliable link.

Thanks
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Celso Providelo <celso.providelo@xxxxxxxxx>