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Re: Upload to PPA Rejected: File already exists (but already deleted).

 

I don't think there's an accessible way to erase all history from a package
archive. It's customary in cases like this simply to increment the version
trailer. Try the suffix option for backportpackage.



On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmartinsc@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Guys,
>
> I'm building my first PPA (
> https://launchpad.net/~martinx/+archive/ubuntu/ig/) and I'm facing a
> weird problem...
>
> I deleted a few packages, to see if I was able to rebuild them from
> scratch, to learn more about "pbuilder-dist" and "ubuntu-dev-tools" but,
> now, I want to re-upload the same package (already deleted (yesterday) from
> PPA) but, Launchpad refuses to accept it.
>
> I'm receiving:
>
> ---
> Rejected:
> File libnftnl_1.0.2-1~ubuntu14.04.1~ppa1.debian.tar.gz already exists in
> IG - Internet Group, but uploaded version has different contents. See more
> information about this error in
> https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/UploadErrors.
> Files specified in DSC are broken or missing, skipping package unpack
> verification.
> ---
>
> I'm doing the build exactly as before (GPG okay, and etc):
>
> ---
> backportpackage -B pbuilder-dist -b -s utopic -d trusty -u ppa:martinx/ig
> -w . libnftnl
> ---
>
> The pacakge is already deleted from PPA but, Launchpad still sees it...
> How can I "purge" my PPA?!
>
> Tks!
> Thiago
>
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