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Re: Copy packages to same PPA, different distro



On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles
<pgquiles@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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?

You should either:

1. Build the source once in Gutsy and copy source & binaries to Hardy
(the opposite should also work, but it depends on the which features
you used in your package).

2. Upload new versions of the source to build to build in Hardy.

For instance, 1/3 (5796/16673) of Hardy sources was carried out from
previous series, so it might be worth to check if you really need a
rebuild before uploading new sources.

The 'copy UI' in edge.l.n (and soon in production, l.n) will refuse to
perform source-only copies within the same PPA, because the rebuilt
binaries would never reach the archive since their contents would be
different of the same files already published in the archive.

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