[Bradford] Meeting tonight.
Kriss at XIXs.com
Kriss at XIXs.com
Tue Aug 20 15:05:18 UTC 2013
Hi John,
Well think the main complication is that its built on top of debian
packages.
So the ubuntu PPA launchpad system expects you to provide a debian source
package which it then auto builds and makes available to ubuntu users.
There is a repository system on launchpad to accompany this, but, from what
I could tell it doesn't actually help or automate anything so not much
point in using it over an external repo which is what I currently have.
Cheers,
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:43 PM, John R. Hudson
<j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com>wrote:
> Hi Kriss
>
> That sounds rather different from the Open Build Service where you open
> your own repository, build your own code and it automatically reports
> success or otherwise in the various builds.
>
> John
> --
> On Tue, 2013-08-20 at 15:29 +0100, Kriss at XIXs.com wrote:
> > Hiya,
> >
> >
> > CC'd back into bradlug since there were some other people interested
> > and I figure it might be relevant.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > The quality control part of PPAs seems to be based on a form of faith
> > based geek magick.
> >
> >
> > You are required to download a code of conduct, sign it using PGP and
> > return it to them.
> >
> >
> > Which I did, without reading it. I assume it said something along the
> > lines of "Be excellent to each other!".
> >
> >
> > https://launchpad.net/codeofconduct
> >
> >
> >
> > Honestly this whole just reminds me of trying to use sourceforge and
> > why I stopped doing that some time ago. :)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Right now I have submitted some code to a PPA, yesterday, and have
> > currently no response back as to why it did not work, or even that it
> > did not work or even just acknowledging that I submitted some code. IE
> > no automated feedback whatsoever.
> >
> >
> > Maybe something will pop up later today. I don't actually expect it to
> > build due to missing dependencies, but I *was* expecting an error
> > response...
> >
> >
> > Preferably within 24 hours otherwise this is going to be a rather
> > painful process.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:19 PM, John R. Hudson
> > <j.r.hudson at virginmedia.com> wrote:
> > Hi Kriss
> >
> > I realised that Brian and I had a brief conversation last
> > evening on
> > this topic which might have been useful for you.
> >
> > He was commenting that the PPA system didn't appear to have
> > much quality
> > control. I commented that the same may be true of the Open
> > Build
> > Service.
> >
> > This was originally SUSE's internal build software but it was
> > open-sourced several years ago and supports the SUSE
> > repositories, the
> > official openSUSE repositories, a number of community
> > repositories and
> > personal repositories.
> >
> > AFAIK the only quality checks on personal repositories are
> > inherent in
> > the Open Build Service software.
> >
> > This will build packages for a wide range of platforms from
> > Centos to
> > Ubuntu - all the KDE software is built on it - but not so far
> > the
> > Raspberry PI - however that could change.
> >
> > I've only found one piece of software packaged from a personal
> > repository that did not work and am happily running several
> > programs
> > from such repos.
> >
> > You can check it out at
> > http://openbuildservice.org/
> >
> > John
> > --
> > On Mon, 2013-08-19 at 18:13 +0100, Kriss at XIXs.com wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > >
> > > I don't suppose anyone going tonight has any experience with
> > using
> > > ubuntu launchpad and the whole PPA to build code system?
> > >
> > >
> > > I'm currently trying to get a PPA setup to build/distribute
> > a project
> > > of mine, but of course this activity is somewhat arcane.
> > >
> > >
> > > Lots of strange configuration files and I'm probably doing
> > everything
> > > wrong, so not having much luck at the moment. Just generally
> > bashing
> > > my head against the usual strange and rather pointless
> > problems.
> > >
> > >
> > > Even when thats solved I'm going to have some advanced
> > future problems
> > > such as I would like to also support arm and I currently
> > cross compile
> > > for arm but have no idea how to fit that sort of activity
> > into the
> > > auto build systems and their DLL hell coping mechanisms.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Cheers,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:39 AM, David Spencer
> > > <baildon.research at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > > > Your putting your rants on video now ?
> > >
> > >
> > > Nobody wants to see that :-)
> > >
> > > By the way:
> > > >> There's a fifteen min [1] video I'd like to
> > share. I'll
> > > bring speakers
> > >
> > > 404 Footnote Not Found
> > > Should have refined fifteen min to 14 min 49 sec.
> > >
> > > -D.
> > >
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> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Kriss
> > >
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> > --
> > Kriss
> >
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