[Launchpad-users] Installing LP on Debian Lenny

[Jan-Marek Glogowski <glogow@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

I'm trying to setup LP as a test environment.

Following the "get source" and "build and run" pages from
https://dev.launchpad.net/ I was able to get LP running on Debian Lenny,
except I had to backport bzr 1.17 - 1.16.1 failed for me. I used the
launchpad-database-setup script.

I copied the config/development and adapted it to my own needs and just
had to install all the dependencies manually. Additionally I have to use
the python-geoip package from the Ubuntu PPA repository, as it expanded
the Python API to the geoip library.

It seems I just misunderstood the content of the package launchpad-buildd,
because I was looking for buildd program, as there was also a sbuild
program. After asking on IRC I droped the sbuild from the package and
after installing I saw the start of the twisted buildd-slave.tac.

I'm currently looking for a way to get PPA upload working. I found the
run_all target in the makefile and there is an sftp service, but I'm
missing the ftp service refered to on the PPA upload help page.
How should the PPA stuff work (extra FTP server, Zope FTP server)?

BTW: the buildd directory contains an apply-ogre-model script, but I
couldn't find a real resource (http://lwn.net/Articles/317845/)
explainning the ogre model (but I found a lot of pages about the Ogre 3D
engine).

Regards,
Jan-Marek Glogowski