On Thursday 03 November 2011 11:43:04 Francis J. Lacoste wrote: > Hi, > > Linaro is interested in having an archive available with ddeb for all of > the packages. > > We don't support ddeb in derived archives, and the way it's implemented > for PPA doesn't really work for them either, as it requires > modifications to the packaging of all packages for which they want ddeb. > > They could work-around this by uploading a modified debhelper to a PPA > that automatically builds the ddeb. But that would mean they'd have to > make sure that their customized debhelper is always ahead of the one in > the distro and that they need to upload packages to both the ddeb PPA as > well as their main one. Plus they want to move to derived distro. > > So the question is how can we support enabling ddeb building > automatically in PPA and derived distros. > > Cheers
We're not really that close to enabling ddebs in primary archives (which includes derived distros). William thinks that the approach taken so far is wrong and I am inclined to agree with him. The original requirement was that the ddebs for Ubuntu were published in a separate archive, otherwise the main archive would start bulging to three times its size and there was the worry that this would cause mirrors to drop Ubuntu. However, keeping deb and ddeb publications in lockstep across two archives is proving to be pretty nasty for various reasons so we are looking at mashing them in the same archive again, but getting the primary mirroring script to split them out at that point. We'd not have to do that for derived distros since we don't mirror them. I need to talk to William some more about this to see where the code is at, since he has done the vast bulk of it. Hopefully we can offer a strategy tomorrow. Cheers. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
