On Thursday 03 September 2009 08:36:11 Fabio Pedretti wrote: > Citando Max Bowsher <maxb@xxxxxxx>: > > Fabio Pedretti wrote: > >> It would be nice to extend the "Copy packages" feature to be able to > >> also copy packages from Ubuntu repositories to PPAs. > > > > This feature actually exists, it's just been kind of deliberately buried > > because the "copy packages" page usually times out because of the sheer > > number of packages in Ubuntu. If you happen to know to construct an URL > > like > > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+archive/primary/+copy-packages?field.name_f > >ilter=quilt&field.series_filter=karmic you can actually copy packages from > > the primary archive to PPAs (you need to fill in the filters to narrow > > the package selection enough for the page to not time out). > > Nice, I didn't know of that feature. This page is not a feature and has only appeared as an artefact of adding a traversal for the webservice, please DO NOT USE IT. Please use the webservice API call to syncSource() as I previously asked. The page adds a large load on our servers as it uses the PPA page template which was not designed for an archive the size of Ubuntu's. Playing around with filters to stop it timing out only exacerbates the situation. I will be disabling this page in due course.
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