Re: Copy packages to same PPA, different distro

[Pau Garcia i Quiles <pgquiles@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoting Dan <danmbox@xxxxxxxxx>:

It does not work for me, either. I even blogged about that:  
http://www.elpauer.org/index.php?p=253


> Hi all, I am having trouble creating binaries for both Gutsy AND Hardy
> in the same PPA. Here's what happened:
>
> 0) My package was initially made for Debian, so the most recent
> changelog entry points to "unstable". Therefore,
>
> 1) I uploaded the source package to ~myname/ubuntu/hardy
>
> 2) The package built fine, and Hardy .deb's showed up in the PPA
>
> 3) I requested "Copy Packages" to the same PPA / target distro Gutsy,
> without checking the "copy binary packages" checkbox
>
> 4) The package again built fine (the build logs contained no errors
> and the PPA front page says my packages are published for Gutsy)
>
> But I cannot find the Gutsy binaries. For example,
>
> http://ppa.launchpad.net/myname/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary-i386/Packages
>
> is empty (0 bytes in size)
>
> Upon further inspection, I don't even see how this could work *in
> principle*, since the Hardy .deb's in pool/main/m/mypackage have no
> indication that they are Hardy-specific. That is, even if Gutsy .deb's
> were built, they would have no place to go (short of over-riding the
> Hardy .deb's in pool/main/...)
>
> What am I doing wrong? What is the right way to create both Hardy and
> Gutsy .deb's?
>
> -- Dan
>
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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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