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Launchpad has supported building for riscv64 for a while, since it was a requirement to get Ubuntu’s riscv64 port going. We don’t actually have riscv64 hardware in our datacentre, since we’d need server-class hardware with the hypervisor extension and …
Since they were introduced in 2007, Launchpad’s Personal Package Archives (PPAs) have always been hosted on ppa.launchpad.net. This has generally worked well, but one significant snag became clear later on: it was difficult to add HTTPS support for PPAs due to the way that …
Personal package archives on Launchpad only build for the amd64 and i386 architectures by default, which meets most people’s needs. Anyone with an e-mail address can have a PPA, so they have to be securely virtualised, but that’s been feasible on x86 for a long time. …
It’s been a while since we posted much regularly on this team blog, not least because for a while Launchpad was running more or less in maintenance mode. That’s no longer the case and we’re back to the point where we can do feature development work again, as …
Setting up a commercial project in Launchpad has gotten easier. You can now quickly register a proprietary project and enable private bugs. You can create private teams and private personal package archives, AKA private PPA or P3A without the assistance of a Launchpad admin. …
On Monday I posted a video showing how to add a PPA to Ubuntu using a terminal. And here’s a video showing how to do it using Ubuntu’s Software Centre.
I noticed over the weekend that the search term bringing most visitors to this blog was “how to add a PPA to Ubuntu” and variants. So, here’s a screencast showing you how. For more, see our help guide. Update: here’s a video showing how to do it with the …
Here’s a quick pub quiz: Question: How do you make packages for Ubuntu? You can choose from the following answers: learn Debian packaging through hours of study and practice borrow existing packaging from elsewhere, throw a couple of Bazaar branches together and let …
You may start getting “Failed to fetch” error messages when updating your software sources (e.g. through “apt-get update” or “Reload package information” in Synaptic), which may be due to a bug we’ve just cleaned up in Launchpad’s …
An long-requested feature in Launchpad is to let people see who’s using a PPA. Finally, we’ve implemented this! Initially, the stats are only available on Launchpad’s webservice API. but we aim to show something useful in the web UI at some point. If you are …