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Continuing with the recent improvements to the build farm - Jelmer has made another massive one. The last major scalability problem that we had was one where the whole farm was blocked when a single builder was ready to upload a build. In the case of large packages, like the …
You can now use SFTP to upload source packages to your Personal Package Archive! If you’re already familiar with uploading to a PPA, all you need to do is ensure your dput.cf includes the following: method = sftp login = <your Launchpad account name> If you’re …
Since we first launched Personal Package Archives, we’ve set a starting size limit of 1 GiB. However, we’ve also said “yes” pretty much every time someone’s ask us for more space. So, seeing as how most requests have been for an increase to 2 GiB, …
If you upload source packages to Launchpad — either to be built and distributed in a PPA or for Ubuntu’s primary archive — you’ve probably spotted the term “build score” and wondered what it represents. A build score is the priority that Launchpad has …
Recently I spent a day with Julian Edwards, one of the developers working on Launchpad’s Personal Package Archives feature. We wanted to come up with a plan for improving the help materials we have for PPAs, including: documentation on the Launchpad help wiki the PPA page …
The release of 2.2.3 brings with it a change for PPAs — we are now supporting multiple PPAs per person! You will have probably already noticed that we made a change in 2.2.1 that altered the URLs you see for a PPA’s index page and its sources.list entry; these now have the …
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If you’ve ever contributed to a Debian-based distribution or used the neat Launchpad PPA services then you’ve probably used dput before. We use dput to upload packages to a Debian repository such as the Debian Archive, Ubuntu Archive, or personal archives such as a …
Last week was the first of some Launchpad Performance Weeks that we’re embarking upon. The Soyuz team worked hard on improving the performance of the PPA page, which had a tendency to be very slow or even time out on PPAs that have a lot of binaries published. The more …
Last month I mentioned that we were generating a unique key for each Personal Package Archive. Well, that’s complete meaning each PPA now has its own key that’s used to sign its packages. And if you create a new PPA, Launchpad will generate a new key for it within a …
If you’ve ever come to file a bug and found that it’s already been reported, you may have wanted to let the project know that you too have been affected. Trouble is: many projects find “me too” comments unhelpful because they don’t add much to the …