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[Jörn Schönyan <joern.schoenyan@xxxxxx>]

Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2014 19:10:41 CEST schrieb Walter Lapchynski:
> me:
> > > I would recommend that all of you test the LXQt packages. Not the
> > > prototype iso (unfortunately the build system doesn't build PPC, boo),
> > > but the PPA packages (ppa:lubuntu-dev/lubuntu-daily).
>
> Jörn:
> > The PPA doesn't builds for PPC, too. So it means that possible 
> > testers need
> > to compile the packages on their own. Would someone be able to
> > (cross-)compile and host an interim solution?
>
> Doh! This might be a good excuse for me to learn packaging. If you can
> help me with this aspect of it, I can figure out the compilation. I
> have a 64 bit G5 so it should be relatively easy to cross compile for
> both 32 and 64 bit.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems all I need is a webserver to host
> a repo, so I could just put the end results on my people.ubuntu.com
> site. If not, someone steer me in the right direction.
>
> tl;dr willing to do the work, but need some help on the finer details.
The packaging is done, only compiling is needed, you can download source 
with

apt-get source [package]

and for building, you should take a look into pbuilder. For hosting the 
packages, there is a tool called reprepro. Hope that helps!

Jörn